Note that xargs actually takes a whitespace-delimited list. This often leads to problems when a filename has a space in it. To fix it, you should either use:

Note that xargs actually takes a whitespace-delimited list. This often leads to problems when a filename has a space in it. To fix it, you should either use: find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ... or: ... | xargs -d'\n' ...