[OCLUG-Tech] Consistency (was Re: is "xargs" really still useful just for limiting command line size?)

[Dianne Skoll <dfs [ at ] roaringpenguin [ dot ] com>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:26:36 -0400
Shawn H Corey <shawnhcorey [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote:

> git ls-files -z | xargs -0 grep 'function_name'

> The -z separates the names with a ASCII NUL and the -0 (minus zero)
> allows xarg to read them correctly. This is useful if the files have
> spaces in their names.

Thank you, Git developers. :(

"find" uses -print0.  "xargs" uses -0.  So of *course* git-ls-files uses
-z.  (And -0 isn't already being used for something else.)

Gaaaah.

Regards,

Dianne.