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bug#3481: rgrep uses xargs -e
From: |
Sven Joachim |
Subject: |
bug#3481: rgrep uses xargs -e |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:31:56 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
On 2009-06-05 22:29 +0200, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> rgrep uses "xargs -0 -e grep -i -nH -e ..." but
> do you really want to make the '[-E eof-str] [-e[eof-str]]' = "grep"?
No, and it isn't done, since that would be "xargs -egrep" or
"xargs -E grep".
> Do you really want to use xargs -e at all?
> If so why not xargs -E?
Because -E requires a an eof-string while -e does not.
> Maybe this is confusion with grep -e.
I suppose not, but the -e option for xargs is probably superfluous. It
had always been used since grep-find was introduced in Emacs 20; anybody
who remembers the reason (if any) for it?
Sven