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man xargs says standard input is delimited by blanks; but is it?
I'm puzzled by what actually defines an arg in xargs.
The man page seems to suggest that args are delimited by blanks (I assume that means whitespace). However the following script doesn't behave as ...
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gnu find and masking the {} for some shells - which?
The man page for gnu find states:
-exec command ;
[...] The string `{}' is replaced by the current
file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the
arguments to the command, ...
