On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:13:21PM -0700, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> -print0 causes find to separate its output with nul (0) characters
> instead of newlines. -0 tells xargs that it's input is separated
> by nuls instead of whitespace.
This is a GNU-ism. It's extremely handy, and I use it, but it's
important to know that it's nowhere near universal.
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