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+# Quote the grep pattern so the shell won't interpret it.
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+### Problematic code
+    grep foo* file
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+### Correct code
+    grep "foo*" file
+
+### Rationale
+The regex passed to grep frequently contains characters that collide with globs. The code above is supposed to match "f followed by 1 or more o's", but if the directory contains a file called "foo.txt", an unquoted pattern will cause it to become `grep foo.txt file`.
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+To prevent this, always quote the regex passed to grep, especially when it contains one or more glob character.