[Gllug] Bug in grep? Surely not ...

[John Southern]

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 15:06, Richard Jones wrote:
> I have this rather large data file, and I want to get out just the
> non-zero rows:
>
>   http://annexia.org/tmp/col4
>
> So:
>
>   egrep -v '^0\.$' < /tmp/col4
>
> works fine.
>
> BUT if I redirect the output to a file, grep hangs consuming 100% CPU,
> but strace shows its not doing anything at all.
>
>   egrep -v '^0\.$' < /tmp/col4 > /tmp/costs

Ran fine here. Takes a while though.
Output file is 3555 butyes in size

John
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