Beware xargs security holes

[Ole Nomann Thomsen]

davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:


>  It *appears* that xenix quotes its arguments in xargs, since I did a
>small and cautious test and it worked all right. ...

No:
touch "foo bar"
find . -type f -print | xargs ls -l
# Produces:
./foo not found
bar not found
...
# ["ls -l"s deleted]
# on Xenix 2.3.2 .


- Ole. (nomann at diku.dk).

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