Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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).The shell is redirecting stdout onto the found file before it is expanding the glob patterns, so the found file is being included in the expansion. You can force the expansion to occur first if you assign it to a variable: sh: FILES=*; grep -ri key $FILES > found csh: set FILES=*; grep -ri key $FILES > found Hope this helps, -- James Bailie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mammothcheese.ca _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
