On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 03:29:20PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes:
>
> > No. It appears to work fine, here.
> >
> > $ type grep
> > grep is hashed (/bin/grep)
>
> This is it ! Some days ago, I put an alias in my .bashrc as
> follows:
> alias grep='grep -l'
>
> Commenting out this alias makes everything work fine again. I
> simply did not remember having set this alias :-)
>
> Anyhow, what's wrong with this alias ?
The grep(1) manpage:
-l, --files-with-matches
Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each
input file from which output would normally have been
printed. The scanning will stop on the first match.
As you're pipe-ing data to grep -l, grep prints "standard input" as the
name of the "file". It puts brackets around it, because it knows that
this is not a real file.
Cheers,
Joost
