[Linux-disciples] xargs -0

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:48:45PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Isn't what you want
> 
> grep -Zirl [pattern] [sourcePath] | xargs -i cp "{}" [destPath]
> 
> ??
> 
> (this won't necessarily deal with all escaping issues, but I think that's a
> different topic than your question)

No, I definitely know about the -i option, but the advantage
of -0 is that I don't need to worry about escaping (except
for the very unlikely case when there's a \0 in the
filename). It seems like I ought to be using xargs -0 all
the time, and I'd like to figure out how to do that.

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