Beware xargs security holes

[Paul John Falstad]

>In article <2113 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>>  It *appears* that xenix quotes its arguments in xargs, since I did a
>>small and cautious test and it worked all right. How about testing your

Though as Dan said earlier, even if xargs quotes its arguments, you can
still get in trouble, since find and xargs use a newline as a delimiter for
filenames, and filenames can have newlines in them.

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