C warning that I can't seem to track down

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:06:48AM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>>    Even without the -r option, you don't need Python:
>>
>> find /usr/include -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep PATTERN /dev/null
>
> Whatever does the /dev/null do?

   It forces grep to print the file name if there is only one name on
   the command line.

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