Subject: Re: groff-1.16.1 reach-over
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/17/2001 19:41:32
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, John Hawkinson wrote:
> You should never use xargs like that, because it might call
> grep with only one argument in which case a filename would not be
> printened. Instead, use
>
>   find . -name Makefile | xargs grep ^.PATH /dev/null | grep cksum

Wouldn't grep -H do the same thing?