Re: Fw: grep recursive problem

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Dan,

You wrote to me regarding this matter:

* dan1 wrote on Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:04:30PM CEST:
> 
> Thanks for the explanation and the solution provided, and sorry that it is 
> not related with grep and has to do with shell globbing.
> Unfortunately, this solution doesn't work in my directory, because I have 
> probably very big files and grep just fails after a very long time 
> searching (2 minutes) with this message:
> 
> address@hidden public_html]# grep -i -r i80word .
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x08ae0e00 ***
> Aborted

Thanks for providing this information.  It looks like a bug in grep,
and thus I think its maintainer wants to know about it.

Could you please write to the list the output of
  grep --version

and roughly the size of the files in that directory tree?  Maybe also
the operating system you use.  The maintainer may have more questions
about this issue.

Thanks,
Ralf