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Why can't I use xargs emacs?


From: Adam Funk
Subject: Why can't I use xargs emacs?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:17 +0000
User-agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16/mm/ao (Ubuntu Intrepid)

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

$ grep -rl 'foo' some/path  |xargs emacs -nw
emacs: standard input is not a tty


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