<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to 'locate' a bunch of files and feed the output into
> '| xargs md5sum'.
> Unfortunately some of them are infected with the "file name"-virus
> (space in the filename).
> With find there is the -print0 option which corresponds to '-0' of
> the xargs options. As of my knowledge, locate does not have such
> a thing.
This is one of the reasons, why POSIX did not include -print0, as it would need
to add new related options to an unknown amount of other programs.
Another reason of curse is that "find . -exec cmd {} +" exists longer than GNU
find and it's -print0. Execplus was added on 1989 by David Korn.
Jörg
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