re: strange behaviour : grep -i --colour ""

2005-03-18 Thread martinko
hi, i've just prepared a typescript for you, see below. note that the original generated file is 37984604 bytes. my system is: $ uname -a FreeBSD mb-aw1n-bsd 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #5: Mon Feb 14 19:45:04 CET 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MB-AW1N i386 do you hav

Re: strange behaviour : grep -i --colour ""

2005-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello, > > i've just found out that while 'grep -i ""' and 'grep --colour ""' > behave as expected (by myself), running 'grep -i --colour ""' results > in very strange behaviour - grep consumes all available cpu and, based > on its input and terminal type, i