On 26 Jun 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 14:05, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > p.s. although you might think hard about being more selective about > > the directories you want to search than just starting at /. > > No doubt... Searching through /dev is, in particular, a bad idea. There > are a number of files in there that grep would search forever. (random, > urandom, zero, most any character device)
/proc is also problematic -- the find command frequently gets hung up if you send it into /proc. rday _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
