Re: feature request: zero-terminated lines for comm

[Brian Dessent]

James Youngman wrote:

> I beg your pardon.  Of course I meant -I.
> 
> $ printf "one    two\nthree four\n" | xargs -I {} showargs {}
> argv[0] = /home/youngman/bin/showargs
> argv[1] = one    two
> argv[0] = /home/youngman/bin/showargs
> argv[1] = three four

I see.  But, using -I forces one invocation of the command for every
argument which is a huge efficiency hit.  You might as well stop using
xargs at that point and just do it with the shell as "| (while read F;
do command "$F"; done)" because you've lost the entire advantage of
using xargs.  So I still maintain that xargs without -print0/-0 is
deficient.

Brian