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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