On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 8:58 AM, AJ Lowell <ajlow...@gmail.com> wrote: > version: grep (GNU grep) 2.21 > > command line: grep -A 1 -B 1 -e "build " -E -i -r * > > error message: 5718 [main] grep 6880 > cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to > grep.exe.stackdump > > stack dump: <see attachment> > > root directory: 617098 files, combined size 17721863057B > > > Directory listing (~20MB compressed) and directory contents (4+ GB > compressed) available if needed.
Thank you for the report. A general guideline: when using grep's -r option, there is usually no need to use "*" to select all (non-hidden) files in a directory. Instead specify only the directory name (here, "." for current directory) and no "*", and let grep recursively traverse its subdirectories. If your use of "*" was intended to expand to a listing of 617,098 files, I'm not surprised that something went wrong. That command-line length would typically exceed the maximum allowed on most systems. I.e., does the problem still arise with this command? grep -A 1 -B 1 -e "build " -E -i -r .
