>Be careful with xargs, if a filename contain spaces (or any other special
>characters), they won't be escaped and your command line could end up
>being something very nasty indeed.
you just have to be careful what you pipe into it. E.g. use -print0 with the
find command and look for this with -0 in the xargs arguments (use of things
like -r are also heartily recomended)... Either way if you're intellegent
about how you use it, xargs can be quite encompassing.
>Martin.
steve
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