Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:09:23 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible grep(1) bug or user error :)? Message-ID: <45FC7523.9050100@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45FC69D5.3010406@mammothcheese.ca> References: <45FC61FF.3090009@u.washington.edu> <45FC69D5.3010406@mammothcheese.ca>
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James Bailie wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > grep -ri {key} * > {key}.found
> >
> > The thing is that grep kept on feeding off of the {key}.found file and
> > eventually ate up all the free space on the device (~12GB).
>
> The shell is redirecting stdout onto the found file before it is
> expanding the glob patterns, so the found file is being included
> in the expansion. You can force the expansion to occur first if
> you assign it to a variable:
>
> sh:
>
> FILES=*; grep -ri key $FILES > found
>
> csh:
>
> set FILES=*; grep -ri key $FILES > found
>
> Hope this helps,
Thanks James :). That's another good solution for working around that.
-Garrett
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