Re: Bug Report (Feature request?) etags (GNU Emacs 21.1)

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Sven Utcke wrote:

> I create the tag-file using something like:
> 
> find . -name "*.c" -exec etags -a -I -o /home/utcke/src/StreetSigns/TAGS {} \;
> 
> probably not the most elegant way to do this (something featuring
> xargs would probably be preferred), but it works.

As Francesco pointed out in the past, etags can read the file names from 
stdin, so just pipe find's output to etags, and you'll have a much more 
efficient command.