Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
Garret,
Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
I was recently grepping a directory and outputting to a file located in the
same directory as follows:
grep -ri {key} * > {key}.found
The thing is that grep kept on feeding off of the {key}.found file and
eventually ate up all the free space on the device (~12GB).
And what you expected? The file {key}.found was created prior to the
expansion of '*', so grep was parsing that file and feeding it with
the messages about the lines with {key} that were found. And these
lines also provoked grep to add more lines about the {key} found, and
so on. I think you got the idea of the infinite cycle you created.
Yeah, I did.. oh well, I'll mark this as user error. Amusing user error
though ><..
-Garrett
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