bin/56558: [PATCH] locate(1) cannot be safely used with xargs(1)

FUJISHIMA Satsuki sf at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 13 04:06:56 PDT 2003


At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:46:02 +0800,
Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> It is misfeature then. Why?

I think it is an unavoidable limitation of text-oriented
operation. You might want to go plan9 to see how they try to solve
this metacharacter-in-the-filename problem.


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