The emperor's New Inittab

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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John Summerfield wrote:
> The quick way to get an answer is:
> find /etc -type f -exec grep -l {} \;
> and examine files listed.

Surely you want a pattern in there somewhere?

Without one, that command never terminates - grep will sit there
interpreting the value of {} as a pattern and trying to read from stdin:

$ find /etc -type f -exec grep -l {} \; &

$ ps ax | grep grep
 1849 pts/48   S+     0:00 find /etc -type f -exec grep -l {} ;
 1850 pts/48   S+     0:00 grep -l /etc/motd

Been doing that for a while now...

Bryn.

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