alt Hacker NewsWas exactly my thought: why not to use null termination?
Looks like a case where reading man page would have spared writing another copycat utility.
Was exactly my thought: why not to use null termination?
Looks like a case where reading man page would have spared writing another copycat utility.
And null termination is guaranteed to work, because the only two characters forbidden in Unix filenames (for most varieties of Unix, I won't guarantee there aren't some weird variants out there) are / and null.
The only times I've needed something more than `find -print0 | xargs -0` has been when I need to apply logic to decide whether to process one of the files, in a way that's not easy to express in a `find` command. Then I write a small script with a for loop and if statements inside it.
But more people should know about `-print0`. It's the answer to 95% of the problems with `find | xargs`.