Hello,  for the use with xargs -0, gnu find has a -print0 option allowing the user to process files even having the character in their name. however, in one wants to make à check on the content, this doesn't work anymore : One can write find -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 ...to have de second xargs allows files with or other special characters in their names, but this won't work with files with in their name. For this reason, I suggest we add a gnu --print0 option to grep (to be used with -l) which will separate the filenames produced with grep -l, with characters instead of characters, in order to allow the correct processing of files with a in their names. One might object that making a file with an character in it's name is stupid, but it is always possible to create one by mistake, juste with a wrong quote matching in shell commands or scripts. Best regards,  Camion