> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Dave Korn - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Mai 2004 12:59 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: RE: grep hangs (cygwin: addressed to exclusive sender for this > address) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of cygwin.20.job > > Sent: 18 May 2004 08:59 > > > I have the problem that grep hangs after I try to search a > > string in all > > files of a directory. > > grep fun * > > > > I can see that the grep process is idle as far as I > > understand the first > > letter in the ps right. > > PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND > > I 3144 3652 3144 3052 con 13724 09:52:02 /usr/bin/grep > > > > What is going wrong here? > > WFM. Does it depend what directory you're in? Is there something > unusual > in that directory, like a symlink to a device or other non-regular file > type? > I found it. The problem was that there was a file with the name '-' and grep thought to scan from standard input. After deleting everything is fine again.
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