Follow-up Comment #5, bug #62043 (project findutils): Andreas writes:
OTOH I am trying to fix the documentation of xargs' inconsistent behavior, imho these two commands should produce identical output both for consistency reasons and according to the documentation but do not: printf '\n' | xargs -r echo foo printf '\0' | xargs -0 echo foo These are not supposed to behave similarly. In its default mode (without -d or -0), xargs does whitespace and quote processing. Like so: horizon:~$ printf 'one "item two is long" three' | xargs -n1 echo foo foo one foo item two is long foo three horizon:~$ printf 'one "item two is long" three' | xargs -n1 -d '\n' echo foo foo one "item two is long" three So the input "\n" has contains one (empty) arg with -d "\n" and contains no args in the default mode, and contains one arg (a newline) with -0. You're right though; if the documentation does not make this clear, we should fix the documentation. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62043> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/