James Youngman wrote: > While that is true, those utilities already coped with the space > character (for example, with "find -print" and "xargs -L").
xargs cannot cope with filenames containing spaces without -0/-print0. $ echo -e "one two\nthree four" | xargs showargs argv[0] = 'showargs' argv[1] = 'one' argv[2] = 'two' argv[3] = 'three' argv[4] = 'four' I don't see how the xargs -L option has anything to do with the situation. Brian _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
