Re: grep kills my machine

[Juergen Heinzl]

In article <address@hidden>, Michael Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
>    The following command will make grep consume my CPU.
> 
> grep --color "" /etc/passwd
> 
> Works fine without the --color argument. I am running grep 2.5.
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Same here, yet it being bedtime for me - in grep.c [586]
match_size, match_offset and beg never change and the while()
loop never finishes, gobbling up all CPU cycles it can get.

Have to be off,
Juergen

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