From f24fc9573a9a77fb18b389262e70c92364b13781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Gill <rrobgill@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:45:02 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] taillog Prevent grep interpeting search term as an option

Adds '--' indicating end of options before the user provided
search pattern.

Signed-off-by: Rob Gill <rrobgill@protonmail.com>
---
 pihole | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pihole b/pihole
index fde9ae82..7df4aefc 100755
--- a/pihole
+++ b/pihole
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ tailFunc() {
   # Color blocklist/denylist/wildcard entries as red
   # Color A/AAAA/DHCP strings as white
   # Color everything else as gray
-  tail -f $LOGFILE | grep --line-buffered "${1}" | sed -E \
+  tail -f $LOGFILE | grep --line-buffered -- "${1}" | sed -E \
     -e "s,($(date +'%b %d ')| dnsmasq\[[0-9]*\]),,g" \
     -e "s,(.*(denied |gravity blocked ).*),${COL_RED}&${COL_NC}," \
     -e "s,.*(query\\[A|DHCP).*,${COL_NC}&${COL_NC}," \