On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Jude DaShiell<jdash...@shellworld.net> wrote: > I tried a command line like: grep -in "print-installation-architecture" * | > less <cr> and got me a surprise. I was in /var/lib/dpkg/info when I did
I don't think this is a bug at all. When you do the command, the shell is trying to expand the file list for "*" and that will (on my system) result in over 8000 filenames - which then gets passed to grep. So it's not a bug in grep at all, because grep isn't doing the globbing. -- thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on your hard disk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org