X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:40:14 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GREP: Memory Exhausted Message-ID: <20090415194013.GA5056@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <28A2EAFEF380B447AF9E3FBFA6387D3189704E525F@AA-EXMSG-C425.southpacific.corp.microsoft.com> <49E639AC.6090103@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49E639AC.6090103@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/