[5019] in Athena Bugs
rt 6.4R: the shell or perhaps grep
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Fri Jun 1 05:39:34 1990
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 90 05:39:19 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: hoffmann@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[5006]
From: hoffmann@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron M Hoffmann)
Date: Wed, 30 May 90 20:41:42 EDT
System name: E40-008-8
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 6.4R
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
I was trying to grep for the occurance of the character "*"
in the output of a finger command.
What's wrong:
I got a segmentation violation error
What should have happened:
The lines with "*" in them should have been sent to standard out
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Example:
E40-008-8% f noc@noc | grep "*"
Segmentation violation
and
E40-008-8% f noc@noc | grep \*
Segmentation violation
First of all, neither of the expressions you tried to pass to grep
is correct; you should have used one of the following:
E40-008-8% f noc@noc | grep "\*"
E40-008-8% f noc@noc | grep \\\*
Second of all, this bug is fixed in release 7.0; the system release
notes list this in the list of bugs that are fixed, and you could have
checked by trying to run it on a 7.0 workstation.
Now that we're in staff test, it would help us if you would check
bugs on a 7.0 machine before reporting them. Thank you.
jik
