Brian Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Depending on what his find did, Chris may have encountered a bug. Find
> / or /etc -exec grep foo {} \; can hang on some versions of Solaris
> because it encounters a named pipe and gets stuck grepping the pipe
> forever.
What you describe is not a bug but inapropriate usage.
It would be a bad idea to let grep ignore pipes.
If you don't like grep to hang on pipes, just use:
find /etc -type f -exec grep foo {} +
Jörg
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