Re: xargs: doesn't fail on missing terminator (which may have severe consequences)

On Mon, 2024-12-09 at 21:00 +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > The above test case can be simplified to the cases: > >    $ printf 'hello' | xargs -0 printf "<%s>\n" >    > >    $ printf 'hello\0' | xargs -0 printf "<%s>\n" >    > >    $ printf 'hello\0world' | xargs -0 printf "<%s>\n" >    >  

Re: xargs: doesn't fail on missing terminator (which may have severe consequences)

On 12/9/24 03:34, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hey. Not sure whether this has been brought up before (at least a quick search didn't reveal anything in the bug tracker or the archive). xargs -0 still executes the command even when no terminating NUL has been found in the (last) line. As sho