From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 18:24:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC21416A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:24:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7199B43D1D for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:24:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martinkov@pobox.sk) Received: (qmail 31145 invoked by uid 0); 17 Mar 2005 18:24:11 -0000 Received: from r4i114.chello.upc.cz (HELO ?84.42.136.114?) (84.42.136.114) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 17 Mar 2005 18:24:11 -0000 Message-ID: <4239CB4B.8090209@pobox.sk> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:24:11 +0100 From: martinko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050220 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: strange behaviour : grep -i --colour "" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:24:19 -0000 hello, i've just found out that while 'grep -i ""' and 'grep --colour ""' behave as expected (by myself), running 'grep -i --colour ""' results in very strange behaviour - grep consumes all available cpu and, based on its input and terminal type, its output is definitely not what it should be. is this a known issue pls (i couldn't find anything about it) or am i just missing something ? regards, martin ps: observed on freebsd 5.3r-p5