The problem here is that you currently can't get xargs to use newline as a separator without also getting spaces as a separator. This creates a variety of problems.
Thanks, -- Raul On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Allan Streib <astr...@indiana.edu> wrote: > Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Can someone explain to me why xargs(1) does not support using newline >> as a separators, when that is one of the most common unix separators? > > Which xargs(1) are you talking about? From my 6.1 machine, man xargs > says: > > The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline, and end-of-file > delimited strings from the standard input and executes the > specified utility with the strings as arguments. > > Allan >
