The Wanderer wrote:
However, it also had the side effect of producing null-terminated lines,
such that xargs could parse it cleanly even if the input contained
spaces. Without the ability to produce null-terminated input segments,
xargs will not work on most datasets.
Maybe this helps?
<...> | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 <...>
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