[m-rev.] for review: use xargs in mmake

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On 15-Feb-2002, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> fjh wrote:
> > Yes -- the main issue is that it doesn't properly handle file names
> > containing spaces, newlines, single quotes, double quotes, or backslashes.
> >
> Do you have any other suggestions on how to solve this problem?  I can only
> think of xargs at the moment.

I can suggest xargs -0 and either ''s in the echo command or find -print0
as starting points for a search for a solution.

Zoltan.
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