On Monday, 3 April 2023 22:03:59 CEST, Greg Wooledge wrote:
With this option, you can supply a stream of NUL-delimited filenames to xargs -0, and process them safely. No explosions will occur, no matter what filenames are passed.
out of curiosity, why not omit xargs altogether and do someting like: #!/bin/bash [...] printf '%s\0' "$d"/* done | while read -r -d '' line; do [...] or do i miss something? greetings...