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On 12/2/2010 2:28 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote:
> [...]
> Also, the OP said the problem was happening on pipelines like 'tail | gre=
p'. Neither tail nor grep muck with tty settings (that I know of), so if th=
e tty is ending up with echo disabled, it's got to be the shell leaving it =
that way. Perhaps there's some kind of race condition in the shell's signal=
 processing? So again, we'll need to know which shell this is happening wit=
h and a way to reliably repro the issue to have any hope of fixing it.

Happens to me always if I grep a directory with a large binary files,=20
grep is currently checking one of those huge files and I try to stop it=20
by doing Ctrl+C.

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