Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com Path: not-for-mail From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:56:01 -0800 Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3E024071.4050908@cotagesoft.com> References: <3E023858.1090509@fangorn.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Mark Blackburn wrote: > If I type: > $ grep -e hello -r . > I get: > grep: .: File exists > and grep doesn't search the contents of any files Data point: doesn't happen with the stock grep 2.5-1 on 1.3.17-1 on WinXP Pro SP1 (everything's the same except the OS). Works fine here. -- 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/