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Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?
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Adam Funk |
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Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs? |
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:20:59 +0000 |
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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')
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- Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, (continued)
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, Bit Twister, 2010/02/03
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, hymie!, 2010/02/04
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Adam Funk <=
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, David Combs, 2010/02/10