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grep: warning: recursive directory loop

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grep

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I'm using Xshell to ssh an Unix server, and I'm trying to search for files containing specific text..

The command I'm using is: grep -ilr "blah_blah_text" ./

It found what I was looking for, but it also gave these warnings:

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/ocean/dvorak/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/ocean/dvorak/testing/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/ocean/dvorak/testing/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/ocean/testing/dvorak/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/ocean/testing/dvorak/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/ocean/testing/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/testing/dvorak/ocean/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/testing/dvorak/ocean/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/testing/dvorak/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/testing/ocean/dvorak/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/testing/ocean/dvorak/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/dvorak/xhtml/mh370/testing/ocean/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/ocean/dvorak/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/ocean/dvorak/testing/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/ocean/dvorak/testing/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/ocean/testing/dvorak/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/ocean/testing/dvorak/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/ocean/testing/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/dvorak/ocean/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/dvorak/ocean/testing/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/dvorak/ocean/testing/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/dvorak/testing/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/dvorak/testing/ocean/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/gulf/xhtml/qwerty/dvorak/testing/ocean/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/testing/dvorak/ocean/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/testing/dvorak/ocean/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/testing/dvorak/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/testing/ocean/dvorak/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/testing/ocean/dvorak/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/testing/ocean/monday: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/dvorak/ocean/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/dvorak/ocean/testing/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/dvorak/ocean/testing/found: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/dvorak/testing/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/dvorak/testing/ocean/sea: recursive directory loop

grep: warning: ./svn/pages/india/xhtml/abcd/dvorak/testing/ocean/monday: recursive directory loop

What do these messsages mean?

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GrSrv Avatar asked Mar 21 '14 07:03

GrSrv

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1 Answers

You have to exclude symbolic links from your grep, they are reason of this warning. You should try to use find firstly:

find ./ -type f -exec grep -il "blah_blah_text" {} \;

When you use find firstly you can omit -r in grep, because find is already recursive.

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adamr Avatar answered Sep 26 '22 07:09

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