Matthew Woehlke wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >However, it also had the side effect of producing null-terminated lines, > >such that xargs could parse it cleanly even if the input contained > >spaces. Without the ability to produce null-terminated input segments, > >xargs will not work on most datasets. > > Maybe this helps? > <...> | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 <...>
Isn't that the same as using xargs without the -0 option? ;-) <...> | xargs <...> The problem is the same as always, filenames with embedded newlines in them. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils