avoiding xargs (Re: [wplug] find & -exec / -ok)

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Fri Sep 26 11:47:57 EDT 2003


This one time, at band camp, David Ostroske said:
> I've had a lot of problems with xargs in the past, especially when
> handling filenames containing whitespace.

I haven't had a problem with xargs and spaces once I learned about find 
-print0 and xargs -0, those options tell the commands use NULL as a file 
delimiter instead of spaces.

-james





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