misc/125057: xargs needs an option to use only newlines to delimit args

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR misc/125057; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: Dave Yost <Dave at Yost.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/125057: xargs needs an option to use only newlines to delimit
 args
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:39:02 +0200

 Dave Yost wrote:
 
 > It is very common nowadays to have lots of filenames with spaces in them.
 > The current solution to this is cumbersome:
 > 
 > find . - type f | tr '\012' '\000' | xargs -0 ls -ltr
 
 That is not the correct solution :-)
 
 find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -ltr
 
 The xargs manpage even mentions that -0 is the counterpart of find -print0.
 
 Kris