From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Funk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs? Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:20:59 +0000 Organization: $CABAL Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265208244 4779 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2010 14:44:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:44:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 15:44:01 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NcgRR-0003c3-67 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:42:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NcgRQ-0001yk-N6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:42:52 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,gnu.emacs.help Original-Followup-To: comp.unix.shell Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net tFIra3ThMzcxoWEokBdTaQF7kWmwasSCZ3Du7wxIz0XcaQTsZa X-Orig-Path: news.ducksburg.com!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:kPr7HmZzOzM+h7VJHpOEPrAv97A= sha1:km77eVYwzO4xUQiEqzflTaOKij0= User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16/mm/ao (Ubuntu Intrepid) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu comp.unix.shell:233727 gnu.emacs.help:176580 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71649 Archived-At: On 2010-02-03, hymie! wrote: > In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero, > Adam Funk , who said: >>$ 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') -- Usenet is a cesspool, a dung heap. [Patrick A. Townson]