Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions

[Dustin Sallings]

On Oct 18, 2004, at 17:49, Miles Bader wrote:

> Er, cancel that -- as Dustin points out in a later message, I was 
> wrong:
> xargs seems to treats any whitespace as a separator, not just newlines.
>
> I'm truly shocked actually; it's a completely stupid things for xargs 
> to do.
> Maybe xargs originally came from system-v instead of bell-labs... :-/

        I agree it's stupid.  Not all my systems have -0, either.  :(

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Dustin Sallings