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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Possible grep(1) bug or user error :)?
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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