To quote Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# the /dev directory indeed just lists a list of names wich are linked
to
# device driver files through the inode table
#
# so in fact you're grep-in the output of the /dev, if this contains
some
# control chars it might hang your grep command, you should* be able to
kill
# this from another console
#
Umm... More than that; since "-r" is passed to grey, and those devices
are, for the most part, regular files, they themseves are grepped.
For instance, 'grep -r hello /*', will eventually lead to grepping
/dev/hda. You'll be grepping your entire bloody harddrive. :)
David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay
Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
