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Comment by akdev1l

17 hours ago

note that one should use -print0 and -0 for safety

Thanks! I've been using the -F{} do-something-tofile "{}" approach which is also handy for times in which the input is one pram among others. -0 is much faster.

Edit: Looks like when doing file-by-file -F{} is still needed:

  # find tmp -type f | xargs -0 ls
  ls: cannot access 'tmp/b file.md'$'\n''tmp/a file.md'$'\n''tmp/c file.md'$'\n': No such file or directory

  • find -print0 will print the files with null bytes as separators

    xargs -0 will use a null byte as separator for each argument

    printf 'a\0b\0c\0' | xargs -tI{} echo “file -> {}"