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From: Michael Diamond <dimo414@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:53:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Created SC2011 (markdown)

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+## Use `find -print0` or `find -exec` to better handle non-alphanumeric filenames.
+
+### Problematic code:
+
+```sh
+ls | xargs wc -w
+```
+
+### Correct code:
+
+```sh
+find . -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 wc -w
+```
+
+```sh
+find . -maxdepth 1 -print0 -exec wc -w
+```
+
+### Rationale:
+
+Using `-print0` separates each output with a NUL character, rather than a newline, which is safer to pipe into `xargs`. Alternatively using `-exec` avoids the problem of piping and parsing filenames in the first place.
+
+See [[SC2012]] for more details on this issue.
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