in reply to yargs -- xargs but handle spaces in filenames

I have never run into a case where somebody thought it was reasonable to include a newline in a filename.

What about double quotes or backslashes? I propose the following: 

#!/bin/bash
perl -pe'chomp; s/$/\0/' | xargs -0 "$@"

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Re^2: yargs -- xargs but handle spaces in filenames
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 13, 2009 at 18:28 UTC
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