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On 2010-02-03, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

> Why not a simple:
>
> emacs -nw -Q $(find . -name '*.txt')

That works, thanks.  I'd forgotten about the $(...) construction.


> Why do you want to use xargs?

Because that's what I always do (except for this, now) when I want to
find or grep -l some files and fire a command at them all.