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Old 10-12-2009
grep hangs for unquoted string
Guys,

This weird problem popped out last week when I grepped for a certain unquoted string in a file, instead of listing all the matches, it just hangs. Here is the exact grep command:

$> grep odt01758 LogFile

But when I quote the grep pattern, it successfully prints out the matches:

$> grep "odt01758" LogFile

Any other unquoted grep pattern works as expected.
Any idea why this happens to the pattern above? What's so special about it?

Thanks in advance!
# 2  
Old 10-12-2009
It does not hangs for me, while doing grep for this string with and without quote.

I doubt whether it could be misunderstanding ?!
# 3  
Old 10-12-2009
It might be machine specific. I'm running this command on AIX Unix Version 5.2, btw.
 
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