Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:16:41 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible grep(1) bug or user error :)? Message-ID: <45FC68C9.9070502@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070317221443.GD82045@codelabs.ru> References: <45FC61FF.3090009@u.washington.edu> <20070317221443.GD82045@codelabs.ru>
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Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Garret,
>
> Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> I was recently grepping a directory and outputting to a file located in the
>> same directory as follows:
>>
>> 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).
>
> And what you expected? The file {key}.found was created prior to the
> expansion of '*', so grep was parsing that file and feeding it with
> the messages about the lines with {key} that were found. And these
> lines also provoked grep to add more lines about the {key} found, and
> so on. I think you got the idea of the infinite cycle you created.
Yeah, I did.. oh well, I'll mark this as user error. Amusing user error
though ><..
-Garrett
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