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Re: grep command adds "NUL"
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: grep command adds "NUL" |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:40:13 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
"Leo" <leo.broska@NOSPAM.isys.com.au> writes:
> looking in the elisp source tells me, that emacs wants to add a null-device.
> why that?
If you call grep with just one file name, then it will omit the file
name in the output. But for C-x ` you need to have the filename. So
the trick is to call grep with /dev/null as one of the file names.
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