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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