[bug #61009] xargs need option to immediately stop on command fail

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #61009 (project findutils):

[comment #7 comment #7:]
> The idiom 'find -type f | xargs -IX cp X ...' is per se unsafe:
> `xargs -I` reads the input line by line - but yes, files can
> have a newline in their name!

> Alternatively, use 'find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...' instead.

Newlines in file names - of course. I forgot about it :-). But we can use
-print0/-0 for this. No problem. -exec find option is good, but it can cause
complex contructs with parentheses and etc. For simple cases -exec is good.

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