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authortrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-10 16:39:22 +0000
committertrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-10 16:39:22 +0000
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find.1 does not encourage users to DTRT when piping to xargs(1)
PR: 36602 Submitted by: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> No objections from: ru MFC after: 2 days
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diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1
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@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ and double
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
@@ -732,6 +738,7 @@ recent than the current time minus one minute.
.Xr locate 1 ,
.Xr whereis 1 ,
.Xr which 1 ,
+.Xr xargs 1 ,
.Xr stat 2 ,
.Xr fts 3 ,
.Xr getgrent 3 ,
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