Update of bug #39824 (project findutils):
Assigned to: None => jay
Summary: Add suggestion 'ls | tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 command'
to xargs man page => Add suggestion 'ls | tr \n \0 | xargs -0 command' to
xargs man page
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Follow-up Comment #2:
I don't think the suggested extra paragraph is an improvement, really.
Solving the problem for whitespace-but-not-newlines only solves part of the
problem. Examples in manpages should, as far as possible, not come with
pitfalls.
Lack of a -0 option isn't a problem in the case you suggest (since the program
being invoked, xargs, has -0). Even if it did lack that option, the "tr"
approach is suboptimal compared to, for example
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -regex regexp -exec stat {} \+
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