Bug 138076
| Summary: | grep hangs with * | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Sammy <umar> |
| Component: | grep | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 2.5.1-34 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-11-04 22:06:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Confirmed. Thanks for spotting it. Please try 2.5.1-34: ftp://people.redhat.com/twaugh/tmp/grep/ Solves the problem when extension is specified e.g. grep perl *.spec but hangs forever for grep perl * It will be to do with one particular file in the directory -- please can you try to narrow down which it is? Thanks. OK...... i had a file named "-" (I guess a freak vi accident). Removing that solved it. Sorry about that. Wow, what are the odds of there being TWO causes for this problem? Anyway, for future reference 'grep string ./*' avoids that sort of thing. Thanks for the report. By the way, do you find grep to be any faster than previously? Yes, definitely, I have just been searching something in the firefox source tree and it was going very fast. Great. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux; X11; en_US) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: Two things: 1. grep hangs if one searches through a large number of files. it does not seem to go through the list a file at a time. Removing the MBS (patch 5) patch fixes this problem. 2. There is still the problem that if you give "*" as the file list it just sits there for ever. Perhaps it is reading "." and ".." ? This happens even after removing patch5. However, in this case if one gives the extension of the files e.g. *.spec than it does the job. FYI Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grep-2.5.1-32 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install grep 2. go to a directory containing a large number of files 3. grep string * Additional info: