Update of bug #29698 (project findutils):
Status: None => Need Info
Assigned to: None => jay
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Follow-up Comment #1:
But quotes *are* special:
~$ cat sample.txt
"hello world" foo bar
~$ xargs -n1 echo arg < sample.txt
arg hello world
arg foo
arg bar
I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say about backslashes and
the shell.
If you are talking about backslashes in the input, they are not special, as
specified by this text:
<<
-d delim
Input items are terminated by the specified character. Quotes and
backslash are not special; every character in the input is taken literally.
>>
If you are talking about backslashes within delim, then this is specified by
this text:
<<
The specified delimiter may be a single character, a C-style character
escape such as n, or an octal or hexadecimal escape code. Octal and
hexadecimal escape codes are understood as for the printf command.
>>
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