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NiLuJe · 08-22-2012, 03:29 PM

@twobob: Perfectly normal. You need to ask grep to find something *somewhere*. Right now it's defaulting to reading stdin. Since there's nothing to match there, it hangs until something interesting happens in stdin

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EDIT: Hence why it works when you pipe something to it

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08-22-2012, 03:29 PM	#6
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,477 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@twobob: Perfectly normal. You need to ask grep to find something somewhere. Right now it's defaulting to reading stdin. Since there's nothing to match there, it hangs until something interesting happens in stdin . EDIT: Hence why it works when you pipe something to it . Last edited by NiLuJe; 08-22-2012 at 03:44 PM.