[plug] grep + xargs = missing separator?

[Cameron Patrick]

Andrew Furey wrote:

> Having switched to xargs a while ago to get around the shell
> max-arguments limitations, if I do
> 
> # find /var/spool/exim/input -name \* | xargs grep -n -i -2
> --binary-files=text "badmailfrom"
> 
> In this particular case, it returns
[...]
> Huh? Two of the separators are missing?!

I presume that they'd be because when the argument list gets too long,
xargs has to run multiple grep processes, and grep doesn't output the
separators at the end of a run?

Cameron.