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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
User-agent: 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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