On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:46:52PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Shailesh Dadure wrote: >>GREP: Memory Exhausted > >Andy Hall wrote: > >>grep: memory exhausted > >Letters in an error message don't just randomly change between upper >and lower case for no reason. Either you two are using different >versions of grep, or Shailesh did not accurately report the *actual* >error message that he was *actually* seeing. > >Perhaps this would be a good occasion to remind everyone of the first >rule of bug-reporting: > >"Cut and paste it. Don't retype it by hand, because you WILL screw up. >Every single time. Guaranteed."
Before anyone bothers to send an error message, a google search may be instructive. This is likely just a known deficiency in grep. It is trivially reproducible on linux too. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
