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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:20:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:    Re: bin/56558: [PATCH] locate(1) cannot be safely used with xargs(1)
Message-ID:  <200309120520.h8C5KGNV016093@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/56558; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
To: FUJISHIMA Satsuki <sf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>,
	FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/56558: [PATCH] locate(1) cannot be safely used with xargs(1)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:12:18 +0800

 FUJISHIMA Satsuki wrote:
 > 
 > command | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 foo
 > would work for any commands, not limited to locate(1).
 
 It will break when filename contains '\n' that is allowed.
 
 Eugene Grosbein
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