Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:47:43 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Possible grep(1) bug or user error :)? Message-ID: <45FC61FF.3090009@u.washington.edu>
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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).
Thankfully it wasn't one of my primary devices, so deleting it wasn't an
issue. However I was wondering if this case should be considered (in
error checking) and another option should be added to output grep info
to a file, instead of /dev/stdout, which would affect the behavior of
the --exclude flag (i.e. the output file would automatically be added to
--exclude's relevant array of non-searched arguments).
Thanks,
-Garrett
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