Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?

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From: Harald Hanche-Olsen
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:51

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+ Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>:

> The emacs command can take a list of filename arguments, so why can't
> I get xargs to work with it?
>
> $ find -name '*.txt' |xargs emacs -nw
> emacs: standard input is not a tty

$ find -name '*.txt' |xargs sh -c 'emacs -nw "$@" </dev/tty' -

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