From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Grep exited abnormally with code 123 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:41:47 -0600 Message-ID: <20130417224147.GA17736@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <83a9oy47f6.fsf@gnu.org> <20130416210815.GA7232@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366238528 20622 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2013 22:42:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:42:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 18 00:42:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1USb3I-0000lA-Bl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43447 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USb3I-0001KY-1M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48992) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USb36-0001KP-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:41:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USb35-00056n-JZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:55470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USb35-00054o-1d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:41:55 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053BC211D5 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:41:48 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BED232DCE3; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:41:47 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90221 Archived-At: Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > No, I'm using Emacs 24, and grep is reporting matches, but halting early > (omitting matches as a result), and signaling 123. Please run the exact same grep command manually. What is the resulting output? What is the exit code? If it is doing something strange then that is the next place to go to understand it. Bob