Rex Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The "-print0" option to find and "-0" option to xargs is a gnu extension
> (AFAIK) to allow for files containing newlines in their name, but xargs
> is definitely broken if it can't read an arbitrarily long list of
> null separated filenames from stdin.
>
> I'm still completely puzzled by this problem.  I wish I could reproduce
> it without having to reboot!

I'm curious too.  Perhaps its a bug in xargs (corner case not being
treated properly would be my hypothesis).  

Matt
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