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Your use of xargs can lead to nasty surprises because of the separator problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#The_separator_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/
by tange 16y ago
Your use of xargs can lead to nasty surprises because of the separator
problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#The_separator_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#The_separator_problem
GNU Parallel http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ does not have that
problem.
Watch the intro video for GNU Parallel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ
- ralph 16y agoGNU Parallel isn't needed to avoid this, using find's -print0 and xargs's -0 would suffice. The advert is unwarranted.