On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:23:05PM -0700, Sheryl McKeown wrote: >grepping and redircting the output to a file >causes a process loop that has to be killed > >17:17 0 [C:\Development\test] >.grep = * > delme > >17:18 66048 [C:\Development\test] >.^C > >What happens is that the grep starts reading the delme >file and then reporting all those finds...
Right. The file is created before grep is started so when grep expands the '*' if finds delme and dutifully searches it... forever. >Ok, but the odd part this is, this behavior doesn't appear when using >the bash shell (on the same XP box). When run from the bash shell, bash itself first expands '*' and then creates delme. Since delme doesn't exist, it isn't searched. cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
