Re: Feature request for cut and/or sort

[Matthew Woehlke]

The Wanderer wrote:
> However, it also had the side effect of producing null-terminated lines,
> such that xargs could parse it cleanly even if the input contained
> spaces. Without the ability to produce null-terminated input segments,
> xargs will not work on most datasets.

Maybe this helps?
<...> | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 <...>

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