grep /var/log/base-config.log.1

[Carsten]

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Hi,
when searching the log file /var/log/base-config.log.1 with grep I
remark some strange behaviour. I recognized it when (resulting out of a
"for" loop) entering the command "grep 'oss' /var/log/base-config.log.1"
which brought up a blue dpkg configure screen titled "Ubuntu
configuration" and a dialog with the label "Configuration of Ubuntu base
system". I received different seemingly dpkg related outputs when using
different search patterns in the grep command.
Meanwhile I've figured out how this happens, funny though: In german the
dialog screen contains the pattern "oss" in the middle of a word and the
log file contains the whole screen in one line using ansi(?) codes. So
what looks like the output of a dpkg command is just grep showing the
line in which it found the search pattern. As it is supposed to do, indeed.
Sorry for this quite pointless posting but I was pretty surprised when
this effect first showed up and maybe someone is inspired in any way by
learning about this irritating behaviour. :-)
Carsten

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