On Monday 05 September 2005 23:05, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> }
> } (I do not know why xargs here won't process arguments seperated by
> } spaces, it should)
>
> I'm not sure what you mean?  xargs never processes arguments separated
> by spaces.  It always wants newlines or NULs.
>

then manual page is wrong:

       This manual page documents the GNU version of xargs.  xargs reads items
       from the standard input, delimited by blanks (which  can  be  protected
       with  double or single quotes or a backslash) or newlines,

-andrey