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 -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
