redirected output out of control

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

John Kirby wrote:
> Hi BLU,
>
> Maybe this is a newbie error and I've been lucky not to encounter it before, 
> but your feedback is appreciated.
>
> I ran a command and unintentionally created an enormous text file that ate up 
> all the gigs of open space on the server:
> find -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i blah > blahInstances.txt
>   

I'd guess that the overwhelming majority of that that search found was 
instances of the string "blah" in the file "blahInstances.txt".

As for why your suse box didn't do the same, I would guess that maybe it 
just happened to search blahInstances.txt before it found the first 
"real" occurrence of "blah" elsewhere.

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