Beware xargs security holes

[Steve Hayman]

>Yeah. xargs should have a -0 option for taking null-separated filenames
>for its input. find should have a -print0 option for producing similar
>output.

So long as you have to modify "find" anyway to solve this problem, why
not just add "-xargs" option to "find", that would be like the "-exec"
option only using as many file names as possible at once.

	find .... -xargs rm {} \;

Seems simpler than modifying two programs.

Steve
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