[CLUE-Tech] Args gripe (was mpg123 - recursively play directories?)

[David Anselmi]

Dale Hawkins wrote:
> 
> My biggest complaint about xargs, is if there are any special
> characters in the input.  For example, many of my mp3 files have
> apostrophes and xargs gets confused.  The only method I know to deal
> with the problem is to filter all the file names through a nasty sed
> expression to escape all special characters.
> 
> Any better or more general solution to this problem?

You can use -0 which changes the input argument separator to a null 
(rather than a space or newline).  Then other characters are taken 
literally (not sure how well that works in practice).

To get a null separated list, you can use the -print0 expression in find.

Dave