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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:06:59 +0900
From:      FUJISHIMA Satsuki <sf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:    Re: bin/56558: [PATCH] locate(1) cannot be safely used with xargs(1)
Message-ID:  <86brtpq758.wl@gray.plala.or.jp>
In-Reply-To: <3F6284EA.7367348B@kuzbass.ru>
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At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:46:02 +0800,
Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> It is misfeature then. Why?

I think it is an unavoidable limitation of text-oriented
operation. You might want to go plan9 to see how they try to solve
this metacharacter-in-the-filename problem.



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