Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: grep hangs Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:59:11 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: cygwin DOT 20 DOT job AT spamgourmet DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Folks, 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? When I use grep fun a* [^a]* grep hang after processing all files which start with 'a' and hangs than. What can I do to fix the problem? Grep 2.5 is installed on my computer Thanks Franz -- 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/