I hear ya. It's frustrating.
Using find -exec has its problems.. If you'll calling a perl script for example, it could be pretty slow to do this:
find ./ -type f -iname "*whatever*" -exec perlscript '{}' \;

Imagine you're using a db too, opening that connection can be expensive.

xargs rawks..

The following is an example that tells xargs that the delimiter is not the posix standard space, but the newline..

Find all files named jpg/JPG larger than one meg, store that to a text file:

find ./ -type f -iname "*jpg" -size +1M > /tmp/found
Use xargs (version 4.4.0 +), tell it the delimiter is a newline, pass this to mogrify to reduce size of files..
xargs --delimiter=\\n --arg-file=/tmp/found mogrify -resize 800x600

In reply to Re: yargs -- xargs but handle spaces in filenames by leocharre
in thread yargs -- xargs but handle spaces in filenames by tye

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