Beware xargs security holes

[Ed McGuire]

In article <1990Oct21.013603.25168 at cbnewsh.att.com> wcs at cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes:

> Many systems, especially universities, have a convention that
> filenames beginning with '#' are "marked for death".

Among other things, `#' begins the name of a file created in /lost+found.
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