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Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?
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Adam Funk |
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Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs? |
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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:37:51 +0000 |
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On 2010-02-06, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-03, Adam Funk wrote:
>> On 2010-02-03, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
>>> Why do you want to use xargs?
>>
>> Because that's what I always do (except for this, now) when I want to
>> find or grep -l some files and fire a command at them all.
>
> "Fire command at many files" isn't exactly what xargs does.
>
> It's really for filtering. 'xargs foo' may choose to execute foo many
> times (an infinite number of times if its own input is infinite) since
> all that matters is "I want on stdout the results of applying foo to
> all those files, in sequence".
Oops, I had misunderstood the operation of xargs, which I've now
reviewed. Thanks.
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, Bit Twister, 2010/02/03
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, hymie!, 2010/02/04
Re: Why can't I use xargs emacs?, David Combs, 2010/02/10