[plug] grep + xargs = missing separator?

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Thu Sep 9 17:17:56 WST 2004


In message <20040909090829.GB29387 at cp.yi.org>
on Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 05:08:29PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I presume that they'd be because when the argument list gets too long,
> xargs has to run multiple grep processes, and grep doesn't output the
> separators at the end of a run?

(1) To Cameron: is that a bug if it doesn't print those separators? Are
the separators just text at the end of lines in the source files? I
don't quite know what's going on, yet :)

(2) To Andrew: does the problem go away if you use GNU grep's -r option?





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