On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:27:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:23:05PM -0700, Sheryl McKeown wrote: > >grepping and redircting the output to a file > >causes a process loop that has to be killed > > > >17:17 0 [C:\Development\test] > >.grep = * > delme > > > >17:18 66048 [C:\Development\test] > >.^C > > > >What happens is that the grep starts reading the delme > >file and then reporting all those finds... > > Right. The file is created before grep is started so when grep expands > the '*' if finds delme and dutifully searches it... forever. > > >Ok, but the odd part this is, this behavior doesn't appear when using > >the bash shell (on the same XP box). > > When run from the bash shell, bash itself first expands '*' and then > creates delme. Since delme doesn't exist, it isn't searched.
Would a similar endless loop occur if delme did exist and the redirection overwrote it? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/