Why does this bash command take up all space on device?
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I'm a little new on searching via bash, so feel free to give me suggestions on the methods to use instead of this, which I'll never use again. I'm searching for occurances of a string, recursively in a directory, with ~50 not-that-large php-files in it; some in current directory, some in directorie…
Error Output
find . | xargs grep "module" > module.txt
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is created before the pipeline starts, therefore it is included in the search. finds an instance of "module" in it, so a line is added to it containing the word "module". Which grep then finds, and adds. Which grep then finds, and adds. Which grep t…
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