For tools that don't support -0, you can add the NULs yourself without much fuss. It's a one-liner in awk/perl/sed. Very handy.

▲ ykonstant 6 hours ago | parent [-]

If you do not have -0 options in your xargs/find, I wonder if you will have those extensions in your awk/sed. Perl is a different story.

▲ MrDOS 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think the parent was referring to using awk/sed to do the equivalent of:

    find ... | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 ...

I.e., a blind replacement without the tool having any particular semantic understanding of what it's translating.

That still requires your xargs to have -0 support, though, and I'd be surprised to have that without the corresponding option on find. But I've done this before when feeding xargs from something other than find.

	▲	mr_mitm 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It is also built on the assumption that filenames never contain newlines, which is wrong in general. It's baffling to me that POSIX allows non-printable characters in file names, but here we are. Surely they had a reason for this decision.