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Re: using find-grep in emacs


From: Andreas Röhler
Subject: Re: using find-grep in emacs
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 13:48:08 +0200
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Am 14.05.2013 06:45, schrieb Bob Proulx:
Dan Espen wrote:
Rami A writes:
M-x find-grep
find . -type f -exec grep -n  {} /dev/null \;


[ ... ]

I believe /dev/null is there to convince grep that it should display
file names because it is looking at multiple files.

Yes.  Definitely!  :-)

Bob



Because a Null -- 0 -- offers the most space to fill all that in?

:)



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