Re: grep(1)ing fifo's

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> hello y'all!
> 
> i'm running freebsd 4.0 and whenever i want to search very many files, e.g.
> using "-r" to recurse into entire hierarchies, a very annoying situations
> can occur:  after having searched a few hundred files the program stops
> when reading/positioning on named pipes and sockets (and maybe on other
> "funny" files, too!).
> 
> so i can't get reliable results, it is impossible to restart the operation,
> and i don't know what to do.
> 
> would you happen to know a work around?

There will be some new options "a la GNU tar"  in the coming grep-2.5
that will help  :

# grep -r --exclude=BAD_FILE_PATTERN  .

'til then you can fall back on good old 'find' to exclude the unwanted.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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