>Number:         7109
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       xargs has difficulty with quoting its arguments
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar  8 11:35:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Perry E. Metzger
>Organization:
Perry Metzger		perry@piermont.com
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>Release:        NetBSD-current Jan 25, 1999
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD jekyll.piermont.com 1.3I NetBSD 1.3I (JEKYLL) #0: Mon Jan 25 12:01:45 EST 1999 perry@jekyll.piermont.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/JEKYLL i386


>Description:
	xargs has trouble with file names with backslashes in
them. Presumably, it is not appropriately quoting things when passing
them to the shell.
>How-To-Repeat:
	try this:
	echo \\foo
	echo \\foo | xargs /bin/echo
>Fix:
	
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: