I was once trying to run a grep command to a directory and looking for a string inside it.
While the directory I was looking into was in a different drive (F:) than that of the system drive (C:) where the grep was installed.
I used the command prompt to first descend into the directory. So, I first went into the directory such that my command prompt looked like as follows:
F:\MySearchDirectory>
As I was already into this directory, I just shot the gremp command like the following:
grep -r "mysearchstring"
But this came with an error as follows:
grep: (standard input): Not enough space
Of course my computer did not have any issues with the space as this was an I7 processor with a huge 16GB of RAM and the hard disk had more than 40% available in all the drives.
This must have to be something else.
I tried to find out but the solutions given were rather too geeky like installing cygwin to do this.
However, I tried to do this using another method. I closed the command prompt and started it again. I did not change my directory in the commmand prompt to F: drive this time. Rather I just shot the following command at its default location:
grep -r "mysearchstring" F:\MySearchDirectory
And lo, the result was out there in no time.
So, what did it do? I guess wingrep works best when it is in its default location and target anything at other location.
Hope this helps another Windows user.