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Old 03-18-2008
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Or if you have the option, make it one file per line (and worry about file names with newlines in them instead ...).

xargs has an option to use a null (ASCII 0x00) terminator for that particular case. (Nulls and slashes are the only two characters which are disallowed in directory entry names.)