Re: [h-e-w] xargs fails with "grep: Invalid argument"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:50:14 +0000
> From: egarrulo <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Thanks for answering. I've deleted the "-e" after "xargs" (because I
> think the second one is passed to grep), but that didn't fix the
> issue:
> 
> 
> find . "(" -path "*/SCCS" -o -path "*/RCS" -o -path "*/CVS" -o -path
> "*/MCVS" -o -path "*/.svn" -o -path "*/.git" -o -path "*/.hg" -o -path
> "*/.bzr" -o -path "*/_MTN" -o -path "*/_darcs" -o -path "*/{arch}" ")"
> -prune -o  -type f "(" -iname "*.el" ")" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i -n
> -e "redefined"
> xargs: grep: Invalid argument

It's a known problem.  If I'm not mistaken, someone is working on
fixing it.