On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: >> the find -print0 / xargs -0 couple was designed to solve that problem >> a long time ago in one specific case. > > I suppose the other angle to take would be the addition of a null > delimiter option for other command line utilities. >
find . | grep something | more filters | perl -ne 'chomp; print "$_\0"' | xargs -0 ... > Put differently: if it's "broken by design" then there's no real > non-broken motives for avoiding incompatibilities with that design. > > Which is *not* to say that my kneejerk reactions are the right > approach: Other people's insight's are important. But: short term > buy-in, less so (though can't be ignored in the long run). > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul >
