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

[Dustin Sallings]

On Oct 18, 2004, at 17:40, Miles Bader wrote:

> No.  Think about it -- why would xargs have problems with whitespace?  
> It
> uses newline-separated records as its input (so other whitespace is 
> fine),
> and it uses execv or whatever to invoke its command (which uses an argv
> interface for arguments, and so has no problems with whitespace, or 
> newlines
> for that matter).

DESCRIPTION
     The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file 
delimited
     arguments from the standard input and executes the specified 
utility with
     them as arguments.


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Dustin Sallings