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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 15-Feb-2002, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately neither `xargs -0' nor `find -print0' are portable.
They only work with GNU xargs and GNU find.

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