slight problem with grep.

[Tim Radzykewycz]

In article <9299 at ritcv.UUCP> jxs7451 at ritcv.UUCP () writes:
>What happened is I used grep like this to find all of them.
>
>	grep write * > zzzz
>
>having zzzz being a random file.

Note that this will only happen if 'zzzz' is an existing file.  If
either of the following situations occur, there won't be a problem:
	grep write * > AAAA		<- AAAA doesn't contain 'write'
	rm zzzz ; grep write * > zzzz

In the first situation, the file 'AAAA' is searched first.
In the second situation, the '*' doesn't match the file 'zzzz',
so grep never even opens it.
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