On 24Oct2020 13:37, Dan Sommers <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: >On 2020-10-24 at 12:29:01 -0400, >Brian Allen Vanderburg II via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > >> ... Find can output it's filenames in null-terminated lines since it >> is possible to have newlines in a filename(yuck) ... > >Spaces in filenames are just as bad, and much more common:
But much easier to handle in simple text listings, which are newline delimited. You're really running into a horrible behaviour from xargs, which is one reason why GNU parallel exists. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/6EO37LQLQWTZDJQA3FRD4FQSC7IOHKYU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/