Eric Siegerman writes:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:00:37PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote:
> > 
> > (Actually, all you need is GNU xargs:
> > 
> >     find . -print | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 ...
> 
> Well, GNU's find and xargs are distributed in the same package
> (findutils), so this shouldn't be too much of an issue :-)

True.  The unstated benefit (which was perhaps a bit too subtle) is that
it can be quite handy to do other line-oriented things (like grep, for
example) between the find and the tr.

-Larry Jones

OK, what's the NEXT amendment say?  I know it's in here someplace. -- Calvin

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