Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?

[hymie!]

In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
  Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>, who said:
>
>
>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

Are you missing the . in your find command on purpose?

What's wrong with
emacs -nw `find  . -name '*.txt'`
?

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