Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> [16-09-03 12:28]:
> <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
>
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...and how does it solve my problem?
