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Re: broken pipe on grep
From: |
Trevor Osatchuk |
Subject: |
Re: broken pipe on grep |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:04:00 GMT |
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:27:16 -0400, prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) wrote:
Yeah, it is aliased:
grep is aliased to `grep -i \!*'
grep is /sbin/grep
grep is /usr/bin/grep
What exactly is the problem here? If I unalias grep it does work. I
am not sure of what \!* means in this alias. Could you explain it to
me Paul? As you may have guessed, I am not the culprit who aliased
grep in .cshrc!
>trevor.osatchuk@nospam.pscl.com (Trevor Osatchuk) wrote:
>> /usr> apropos process | grep memory
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> grep: can't open memory
>> Broken pipe
>
>grep thinks "memory" is a filename, not a pattern. Maybe you have a
>shell function or alias called "grep" that's making trouble. What
>does "type -a grep" say?
>
>
>paul
Trevor Osatchuk
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