Bob Proulx schrieb:
> Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
>> I am not sure what grep does not like about my home directory, but as
>> soon as I issue a "grep -R Testtext *" in my home dir grep will start to
>> hang not triggering any further disk access after a short while.
>
> Bugs in grep should be reported to bug-grep. But you have contacted
> the bug-coreutils list instead. We don't know much about grep here.
> The bug reporting address for most programs is documented in the
> manual and in the output from --help.
>
>> Tried to get a backtrace by installing coreutils-debuginfo and
>> coreutils-debugsource but gdb does not find any symbols:
>>> rpm -ql coreutils-debugsource coreutils-debuginfo|grep grep
>>> (nothing found)
>
> I am not familiar with those packages. I assume that they are
> specific to a particular distribution. Meanwhile this is the mailing
> list for the development of the coreutils for the GNU project. Those
> packages are not part of the GNU Project.
>
> But I don't think they are related to grep. This was confirmed by
> your not finding any files relating to grep in them. They are
> unrelated to your issue with grep.
>
>> i.e. it does not seem to descend to subdirs)
>
> Even though this isn't the right place to comment I can't help but to
> suggest something. The most likely problem is that you have a pipe
> file in your home directory. When grep reads the file it is blocked
> waiting for input. Since nothing is writing the file this input never
> arrives and grep waits for it. You would need to --exclude that file.
>
> The grep -R option is really just a hack. Adding it requires adding
> much of 'find's functionality such as --exclude and others. It
> violates the principles of the Unix philosophy. Instead it is better
> to use 'find' for finding files to act upon with a command. Here is a
> better way to search all files in your home directory.
>
> find . -type f -exec grep Testtext {} +
>
> Bob
>
thx, that has resolved my issue.
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