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Grep exits abnormally with code 123 when running rgrep on emacs

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Greetings fellow Emacsers I'm running GNU Emacs 23.1.1 on "Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS" and any search I perform using the built-in M-x rgrep on the standard Linux kernel source code (vanilla) ends prematurely with the following error printed to the emacs echo area: I have been seeing it for a while on Redh…

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Grep exited abnormally with code 123

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Fix for: Grep exits abnormally with code 123 when running rgrep on emacs

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Looking at xargs exit code documentation: but according to grep documentation 1 is the exit status if grep didn't match the pattern So to me it seems that the command line that emacs uses to issue an 'rgrep' search will always return 123, and this e…

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