On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: > If you want to add things to standardized utilities you need to > convince a large volume of people in the greater community > > Not me.
Ok, Would you be open to a re-implementation of the gnu xargs -d option? Quoting https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/xargs-options.html --------------- -d delim Input file names are terminated by the specified character delim instead of by whitespace, and any quotes and backslash characters are not considered special (every character is taken literally). Disables the end of file string, which is treated like any other argument. The specified delimiter may be a single character, a C-style character escape such as ‘\n’, or an octal or hexadecimal escape code. Octal and hexadecimal escape codes are understood as for the printf command. Multibyte characters are not supported. --------------- That's considerably more elaborate than what I was thinking, but would at least accomplish what I think needs to be done. And, that way you've got at least some buy-in already... Thanks, -- Raul
