Re: grep 2.5: --only for long line runs forever

[Sven Hartrumpf]

On 18 Jan 2003, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> wrote: 

>    > grep --version
>    grep (GNU grep) 2.5
>    > grep --only "analysis-quality " 

This should read like the fgrep line (sorry):
grep --only "analysis-quality " a

>    runs forever (I stopped after 5 minutes).
> 
> grep is awaiting input from stdin, you need to specify a file, or give
> it something to play with.

Yes, I did this (see above) and it runs forever :-(