Re: feature request: zero-terminated lines for comm

[Brian Dessent]

James Youngman wrote:

> While that is true, those utilities already coped with the space
> character (for example, with "find -print" and "xargs -L").

xargs cannot cope with filenames containing spaces without -0/-print0.

$ echo -e "one two\nthree four" | xargs showargs
argv[0] = 'showargs'
argv[1] = 'one'
argv[2] = 'two'
argv[3] = 'three'
argv[4] = 'four'

I don't see how the xargs -L option has anything to do with the
situation.

Brian