>Actually, xargs (the standard one, without -0) accepts a shell-quoted
>list of filenames, so rather than -print0, find could have just been

Maybe now they do, but when they were first written
they did not.  (Or so I understand.)  The -print0 solution
was the easy/obvious choice, especially given that the NUL
character couldn't be found in a filename.  It required near
zero change to the existing code, and handled all weirdo
filenames with ease.

-- Jim




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