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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: grep hangs
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:59:09 +0100
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> -----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?


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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