From 3fff38647d14805c3da7664073b9100972899614 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jay <jay>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:11:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Indicate how trailing blanks are handled by xargs.

---
 doc/find.texi | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi
index d8eaf76..d598ccc 100644
--- a/doc/find.texi
+++ b/doc/find.texi
@@ -2005,7 +2005,9 @@ arguments are delimited by blanks (which can be protected with double
 or single quotes or a backslash) or newlines.  It executes the
 @var{command} (default is @file{/bin/echo}) one or more times with any
 @var{initial-arguments} followed by arguments read from standard
-input.  Blank lines on the standard input are ignored.
+input.  Blank lines on the standard input are ignored.  If the
+@samp{-L} option is in use, trailing blanks indicate that @code{xargs}
+should consider the following line to be part of this one.
 
 Instead of blank-delimited names, it is safer to use @samp{find
 -print0} or @samp{find -fprint0} and process the output by giving the
-- 
2.11.4.GIT