A bunch of work on man pages to shore up interface and behavior before

[monkeysphere.git] / src / common

diff --git a/src/common b/src/common
index 01e52b8b86c44b11d13ce6a7001498cb7923ea78..d20d306c63793c375fe4d03f77f1c4595b5fe8e8 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common
+++ b/src/common
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ remove_line() {
 
     # if the line is there are removed, return 0
     if [ "$file" -a "$string" ] ; then
-       grep -v "$string" "$file" | sponge "$file"
+       grep -v -F "$string" "$file" | sponge "$file"
        return 0
     # otherwise return 1
     else