[Users] Firefox 8.0

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Wed Dec 7 05:58:01 CET 2011


On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 20:26:13 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

> [jjj at Devil8 .mozilla]$ grep Evolution*
> ^Z
> [5]+  Stopped                 grep --color=auto Evolution*
> 
> I killed it after 20 minutes. The hard disk light never came on and my
> CPU monitors didn't budge, so I assumed it was stuck and doing
> nothing. 

You miss-typed the instruction. Had you copied & pasted, you would have
gotten:

grep Evolution *
              ^
              |

Note the space.

An exercise for the student, what's the difference between what you
entered and the original instruction?



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