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Date: Sun,  4 Oct 2009 05:31:27 +1100
From: Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it
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On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 10:01:09AM -0700, Rob Pike wrote:
> cat * /dev/null
>
> is the recommended solution.

Thanks Rob,

That works with cat, but it won't work with chmod, grep -L, ls, find, file
and many others.  I think all of the unix and plan 9 utilities that deal
with a variable number of files have this problem.
Does anyone agree with me that it needs fixing?

Sam