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koalaman edited this page Jun 8, 2014
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Use 'find -print0 | xargs -0' or find -exec + to allow for non-alphanumeric filenames.
Problematic code:
find . -type f | xargs md5sum
Correct code:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
Rationale:
By default, xargs interprets spaces and quotes in an unsafe and unexpected way. Whenever it's used, it should be used with -0 or --null to split on \0 bytes, and find should be made to output \0 separated filenames.