bugreport grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2

[Blaauboer, Dick]

Hello,

using this fine utility I ran into a bug. I think.

Consider this.

Trying to find a specific string ( "Hello") in, lets say 10 files called
*.LOG ( 1.LOG, 2.LOG, 3.LOG etc).

grep Hello *.LOG (return) works fine.

Now I want the output in a file.

grep Hello *.LOG>output.txt (return)
 
I get a file called output.txt with the result of my grep-search action.
Nice.
 
Now I type grep Hello *.LOG>output.LOG (return)
The program goes into a loop. It seems to see the outputfile (also a
.LOG) as one of the files it has to check, adding its findings over and
over again.
 
Ctrl C did stop this loop but the result was a file of about 64 Mb, text
only.
At home I will try to see what happens when I do not interrupt the
program.  Must crash somewhere, disk full (?) of file too big (?) or
something like that.
Can't do this at work. Boss will not be pleased when I crash my PC due
to experiment.
 
Not a big bug. Just don't name the outpufile .LOG
 
See if you get the same result.
 
Thanks for the fine utility. It's a great tool.
 
Hope I have helped you with this "bug-report".
 
Greetings from Holland.
 
Dick Blaauboer.
Please don't spam my mail. ( Boss doesn't like it and he is right about
that.)

 
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