On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:39:34AM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > I have a weird problem with grep. Let me give you an example: > > dpkg --list | grep emacs > > now gives the following output: > > (standard input) > > It worked perfectly until a few days ago. Does anybody know what > is happening ?
No. It appears to work fine, here. $ type grep grep is hashed (/bin/grep) $ grep -V grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ dpkg --list | grep emacs ii emacs20 20.7-8 The GNU Emacs editor. ii emacsen-common 1.4.12 Common facilities for all emacsen. Cheers, Joost