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Source? I tried searching for it and found nothing.
I think the other user meant that
lsoutput is not supposed to be treated as parsable, because the tool doesn't offer any guarantees in that regards.Shells have built-in support for globbing files anyway.
xargsis also not needed. If someone is allergic to using a shellforloop,findalways had-execwith;instead+which wouldn't trip on too many arguments.