Re: grep Subject: Grep Never Stops Bug.

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Martyn Braithwaite wrote on 04/07/2009 11:51 AM:
> Hello!
>  
> You probably know about this bug already... but here it is anyway...
>  
>  
> weizen09$ cat /etc/SuSE-release
> SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86_64)
> VERSION = 9
> PATCHLEVEL = 4
> weizen09$
>
> weizen09$ time grep -n -A 22 310260504296323 * > Sorting.ldif
>  
> real    0m1.739s
> user    0m1.418s
> sys     0m0.321s
> weizen09$ du -h *
> 428M    jrep_24032009_6
> 433M    jrep_25032009_1
> 1.1G    N-A
> 24K     Reconstruction
> 20K     Sorting.ldif
> weizen09$ time grep -n -A 22 310260504296323 * > Sorting.ldif
>  
> <never stops>

Because it now finds the string in Sorting.ldif, appends it
to Sorting.ldif, etc. In other words, it's feeding itself ;-)

bjd