Re: use the list of files stored in a text file and process it

[ht at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

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You will also run into problems with xargs and filenames with spaces
in.  In my experience, the simplest thing that works reliably with
xargs and all Windoz filenames is xargs -0, so what you want is

> tr -s '\012\015' '\000' < test.txt | xargs -0 ls

Note also that find has a -print0 flag, which goes well with -0

> find . -name '[whatever]' ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...

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