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Re: using find-grep in emacs


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: using find-grep in emacs
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 22:36:12 -0400
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In article <icbo8ewfsj.fsf@home.home>, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> 
wrote:

> I believe /dev/null is there to convince grep that it should display
> file names because it is looking at multiple files.

Right. Modern greps have -H for this (and -h to suppress filenames even 
when there are multiple inputs).

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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