----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lotta Loytonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 06:41
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?
> >> find . -type f -print | xargs grep <pattern> /dev/null
>
> I don't get it. I doubt it hurts, but why the /dev/null?
Some grep's don't have an option for saying "regardless
of the number of files, always output the name of the file
being grep'd." Adding /dev/null insures that there are always
at least two files on the grep command line and this forces
the output to always include the filename.
Some of us really =are= that old ;-)
-- Julie.
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