[ykonstant]

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]

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]

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.

[db48x]

That’s changing, maybe eventually even on real systems: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu#the-nuclear-option