From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs? Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:19:41 +0100 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <87fx5iqoki.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265214332 29861 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2010 16:25:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:25:32 +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 17:25:27 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 1Nci2e-0003fn-VE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:25:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nci2e-0004IA-4o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:25:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nci2G-0004Hw-EE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37077 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nci2G-0004Ho-2x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nci2D-0002Xl-RG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51308) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nci2D-0002Xh-Fo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nci2A-0003GI-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:24:54 +0100 Original-Received: from 230.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:24:54 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 230.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:24:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 230.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEUHBARgJRFPS0WbMBTC TSG/uJs0yyVHAAAACXBIWXMAAAsSAAALEgHS3X78AAAACXZwQWcAAAAwAAAAMADO7oxXAAABpUlE QVQ4y3VTQXKDMAyUnD7AwvQOhtxj5N4LFh9ow/+/UtlpM0BczWSS0Wola7UBeEb3+3kJ/5p9ZLz3 UI0n0J0Y4K/lh1nG24FhlJOR2LdSKtpV5gfi/Zd+NdaJBbB4D5N0JnfUIVp6obZURkJwS2a8b9uX AkgxA5gCEcknAH1s2z0DPooWmjGKcJR+HNZt+9bm0GtGRycRuZGs98Ffr02vABWGopIAhmXmxnQN BwBXZjgFLHRoqbfeYxCLWqsjLyKhbEHW+A5nEs699Q2O80ALrgHTmUTy6P0MnKyKQpKHpoNWokxs F0D5VegvWmEozyE6nuMiS98mWzlUQ9bW8qYfqOaFtzWlYCqGeIs6HEyl08jkrxUG9MF5ipXpOOpd ZMoXPPVSLWJiiwNNB+eRSyxJZmQKcacikgucnCRiHuJOLmyYJRDPwOqAvY4pA+Wy+VS8G26BAsdb Ph2Hw7ORy/H0IOG0TnaM8Cp0XrFYyU0v2z8AqkifPVbLZ0qo/gsRg60C7p+8Ov9jrUIxFde+jnAq X42hyp/c+ZcnVyUYBarrqZt3+R8450png3cWKgAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAwOC0wNS0z MVQyMjoxNDoyMiswMjowMK3VBDcAAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMDctMTAtMjhUMTc6MDg6 NDgrMDE6MDDLdIcLAAAAEXRFWHRqcGVnOmNvbG9yc3BhY2UAMix1VZ8AAAAgdEVYdGpwZWc6c2Ft cGxpbmctZmFjdG9yADJ4MiwxeDEsMXgxSfqmtAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Edq+yrJRZDg3puLHnfEVtLd/vI0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71651 Adam Funk writes: > 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') Nothing that's the same, i prefer $() than backquote but that just a choice. Though bash was speaking at one time to remove backquote construction or make it obsoléte in future versions. Don't know what they did finally. -- Thierry Volpiatto