Re: grep -R hangs if applied upon directory that contains pipe file

[Bert Wesarg]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 20:38, Elmar Stellnberger <estel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> grep -R should only open regular files, no pipes, no devices, because
> otherwise grep -R will hang on these files.
>
> i.e. > grep -R seekitem .
> is expected to behave like
>> find . -type f -exec grep seekitem {} +
>
> reproduce by:
>> mkfifo hug
>> grep -R seek .
See the --device= option.

Bert