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AW: grep hangs
- From: cygwin dot 20 dot job at spamgourmet dot com
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 18:46:10 +0200
- Subject: AW: grep hangs
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Dave Korn - dk@artimi.com
> [mailto:+cygwin+job+7a44e0a003.dk#artimi.com@spamgourmet.com]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Mai 2004 12:59
> An: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Betreff: RE: grep hangs (cygwin: addressed to exclusive sender for this
> address)
>
> > -----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?
>
I found it. The problem was that there was a file with the name '-' and grep thought to scan from standard input. After deleting everything is fine again.
Thanks
Franz
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