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RE: grep hangs
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:59:09 +0100
- Subject: RE: grep hangs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of cygwin.20.job
> Sent: 18 May 2004 08:59
> I have the problem that grep hangs after I try to search a
> string in all
> files of a directory.
> grep fun *
>
> I can see that the grep process is idle as far as I
> understand the first
> letter in the ps right.
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> I 3144 3652 3144 3052 con 13724 09:52:02 /usr/bin/grep
>
> What is going wrong here?
WFM. Does it depend what directory you're in? Is there something unusual
in that directory, like a symlink to a device or other non-regular file
type?
cheers,
DaveK
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