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Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?
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Bit Twister |
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Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs? |
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Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:14:26 +0000 (UTC) |
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On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:22:17 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> The emacs command can take a list of filename arguments, so why can't
> I get xargs to work with it?
>
> $ find -name '*.txt' |xargs emacs -nw
> emacs: standard input is not a tty
>
> $ grep -rl 'foo' some/path |xargs emacs -nw
> emacs: standard input is not a tty
Maybe it's the -nw switch. Try
find -name '*.txt' |xargs emacs
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?,
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Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, hymie!, 2010/02/04
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