M-x grep /dev/null embarrassment

[Dan Jacobson]

"What's going on" I murmured to myself as I looked at the output from
(grep "grep -n -e geocities.com/jidanni *htm*|grep Dan")
"there's got to be a million Dan's in there... where did they go?
Hmmm, I know, I'll try
(grep "grep -n -e geocities.com/jidanni *htm*|grep -v Dan")
that ought to find them.  Still nothing.  I bet it's a LC_COLLATE
problem.

No, wait, look what it is doing:
cd /home/jidanni/geocities/
grep -n -e geocities.com/jidanni *htm*|grep -v Dan /dev/null

Oh, great, the old /dev/null hack to coax filenames out of old greps
is at play.  They only way I can counter it is fight back with
(grep "grep -n -e geocities.com/jidanni *htm*|grep Dan;:") i.e. I add
";:" at back to sterilize it.  adding ";#" or " #" also works.

By the way, after doing my tests with many C-x ESC ESC, I tried M-x
grep RET M-p M-p ... but it seems the C-x ESC ESC stuff are not added
to the M-x grep RET M-p history.

Anyways, "lose the /dev/null hack and use a regular grep -switch to
force filenames.  It's about time." 
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