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From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
Subject: Re: docs/36602: find.1 should encourage users to DTRT when piping to xargs
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The following reply was made to PR docs/36602; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
To: docs@freebsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/36602: find.1 should encourage users to DTRT when piping to xargs
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:54:28 +1000

 On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:18:51AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
 > You might want to also slip xargs(1) into the "See Also" section before
 > someone writes a PR on it.  Its seems to be common (but debated)
 > practice to Also See all of the commands mentioned in other sections.
 
 indeed. xargs is relevant to find in any case; find | xargs is
 a common pattern.
 
 Index: find.1
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/find/find.1,v
 retrieving revision 1.41
 diff -u -r1.41 find.1
 --- find.1	20 Nov 2001 15:45:29 -0000	1.41
 +++ find.1	1 Apr 2002 09:47:38 -0000
 @@ -117,6 +117,12 @@
  quotes, backslash
  .Pq Dq Li \e ,
  space, tab and newline characters.
 +.Pp
 +However, you may wish to consider the
 +.Fl print0
 +primary in conjunction with
 +.Ql xargs -0
 +as an effective alternative.
  .It Fl d
  The
  .Fl d
 @@ -732,6 +738,7 @@
  .Xr locate 1 ,
  .Xr whereis 1 ,
  .Xr which 1 ,
 +.Xr xargs 1 ,
  .Xr stat 2 ,
  .Xr fts 3 ,
  .Xr getgrent 3 ,

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