xargs blows up on files with stupid characters in their names

[Padraig Brady]

Hi Jamie,

As you know xargs in default mode can delimit arguments
with spaces or newlines. However single arguments with spaces
can be protected using quotes, hence the special quote processing
you're running into, so:

#echo '"arg1" "arg2"' | xargs
arg1 arg2

quotes are not handled when you specify xargs -0
so consider this as meaning args can have any chars
except \0's so:

#touch file\'1
#find file* -print0 | xargs -0
file'1

Yes the missing \n in --help is annoying and was a regression
going from 4.1.6 -> 4.1.7

Padraig