From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 14:54: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65FA37B502 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 14:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02898; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 14:53:56 -0700 Message-ID: <39DF9B74.4F1747A3@urx.com> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 14:53:56 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: grep hanging?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > > At 2:18 PM -0700 10/07/00, Kent Stewart wrote: > >media@mail1.nai.net wrote: > >> > >> I have a bit of a problem, in trying to find files in order to finish this > >> install, I'll try to use grep. Sometimes it just hangs. The command > >> prompt does not return. The lights on the computer do not show any disk > >> activity. What could be the problem?? Is there a way to get back the > >> command prompt without hitting CRTL-ALT-DEL?? > > > >I do this all of the time. In my case, it usually means it is looking > >for input from STDIN (the keyboard). I &#$&$& and press c. > > Thanx!! Why would it be looking for input from the keyboard?? I missed providing a proper file at the end. Since it can't find a file to process, it seems to look at STDIN and that is when everything stops. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message