Re: [tlug] Re: Security question with grep/egrep

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@example.com>]

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On Wednesday 31 March 2004 21:18, Jim Breen wrote:
> It appeared to be a failure of the piping of the egrep results through
> "head -nnn", and the result was the CGI would just hang until apache 
> cleaned it up.

Depending how you coded it, the problem could have been caused by a 
deprecation message. On my system:

bash-2.05b$ echo test | head -1
head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' since this will be removed in the 
future
test
bash-2.05b$ head --version
head (coreutils) 5.2.0


Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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