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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:46:52PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Shailesh Dadure wrote:
>>GREP: Memory Exhausted
>
>Andy Hall wrote:
>
>>grep: memory exhausted
>
>Letters in an error message don't just randomly change between upper
>and lower case for no reason.  Either you two are using different
>versions of grep, or Shailesh did not accurately report the *actual*
>error message that he was *actually* seeing.
>
>Perhaps this would be a good occasion to remind everyone of the first
>rule of bug-reporting:
>
>"Cut and paste it.  Don't retype it by hand, because you WILL screw up.
>Every single time.  Guaranteed."

Before anyone bothers to send an error message, a google search may be
instructive.  This is likely just a known deficiency in grep.  It is
trivially reproducible on linux too.

cgf

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