From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: grep command adds "NUL"
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:13:31 +0200 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021203081022.14670D-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ashe5v$1og7$1@otis.netspace.net.au>
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Leo wrote:
> cd C:/mydir/
> grep -n 'spider' *.pas NUL
> spidermain.pas:368: 115 spider:= TSpider.Create;
> grep: NUL: Permission denied
>
> grep exited abnormally with code 2 at Tue Dec 03 15:59:34
>
> looking in the elisp source tells me, that emacs wants to add a null-device.
> why that?
It does so because ``normal'' (read: Posix-compliant) versions of Grep
don't report file names when you run them on a single file. Adding the
system null device makes the list of files be always at least 2 files
long, so file names are reported. (Emacs needs the file names to let you
jump to each match found by Grep.)
Since you run Emacs on Windows, I'm guessing that your Grep is not
Posix-compliant, perhaps from Borland? In that case, I suggest you find
a port of GNU Grep and install it; then the problems will go away.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-03 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-03 5:06 grep command adds "NUL" Leo
2002-12-03 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-12-03 7:40 ` Kai Großjohann
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