<meino.cra...@gmx.de> 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 -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/'