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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 'find'
Date: Mon,  7 Jul 2003 14:05:23 +0000
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"boyd, rounin" wrote:
>     ... | xargs grep foo /dev/null
> but you [doug] knew that anyway.

Yeah, in fact I have to do that a lot.
Clearly this is a kludge.  Why should /dev/null have to get involved?