Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:01:11 GMT From: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/125057: xargs needs an option to use only newlines to delimit args Message-ID: <200806272101.m5RL1BlE059646@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200806272110.m5RLA2co073187@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 125057 >Category: misc >Synopsis: xargs needs an option to use only newlines to delimit args >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jun 27 21:10:02 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Dave Yost >Release: Mac OS X >Organization: >Environment: Darwin ip2 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 >Description: 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 Much easier and nicer would be something like this: find . - type f | xargs -l ls -ltr where -l is an option that tells xargs to treat each line of input as an argument to be quoted. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:home | help
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