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Date:      Mon,  1 Apr 2002 13:50:25 +1000 (EST)
From:      Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/36602: find.1 should encourage users to DTRT when piping to xargs
Message-ID:  <20020401035025.138C83E2C@green.shallow.net>

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>Number:         36602
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       find.1 should encourage users to DTRT when piping to xargs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 31 20:00:04 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joshua Goodall
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD green.shallow.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #2: Sat Mar 30 12:55:07 EST 2002 joshua@green.shallow.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GREEN i386


>Description:

find.1 describes the -X option, great, but doesn't give the
DTRT solution, that is, using -print0 and then xargs -0 on the
other side of the pipe.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

Index: find.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/find/find.1,v
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -r1.41 find.1
--- find.1	20 Nov 2001 15:45:29 -0000	1.41
+++ find.1	1 Apr 2002 03:29:30 -0000
@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@
 quotes, backslash
 .Pq Dq Li \e ,
 space, tab and newline characters.
+.Pp
+However, you may wish to consider the
+.Fl print0
+primary in conjunction with
+.Ql xargs -0
+as an effective alternative.
 .It Fl d
 The
 .Fl d
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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