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Article #4100Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?
From: Adam Funk
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:20
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:20
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On 2010-02-03, hymie! wrote: > In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero, > Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>, who said: >>$ find -name '*.txt' |xargs emacs -nw >>emacs: standard input is not a tty > > Are you missing the . in your find command on purpose? It's optional in GNU find. > What's wrong with > emacs -nw `find . -name '*.txt'` > ? Nothing, thanks! What's the difference between these two? emacs -nw `find . -name '*.txt'` emacs -nw $(find . -name '*.txt') -- Usenet is a cesspool, a dung heap. [Patrick A. Townson]
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