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Re: find + xargs

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Subject: Re: find + xargs
From: yyy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Geoff Clare)
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:48:42 +0100
"Bill Rugolsky Jr." <yyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, on Sat 24 Mar 2001:
>
> I'll reiterate what I said the first time:  any characters are
> legal in filenames except '/' and NUL ('\0').  That NUL is the
> appropriate separator is "obviously correct,"

If argument aggregation is built into "find" itself, then there is
no separator at all.  The pathnames are just passed as individual
arguments to the executed command.


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Geoff Clare                         yyy@xxxxxxxxxxx
UniSoft Limited, London, England.   yyy@xxxxxxxxxx

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