>What

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 <command>

>Why

Some files have spaces or newlines in them which does not work. Using this incantation, <comand> is be run individually on each file that the find command lists.

>How

The argument -print0 for find makes it separate each output row with a null terminator instead of newlines.

The argument -0 for xargs makes it take inputs separated by null terminators instead of whitespace.

The arguments -I{} for xargs makes it possible to further specify the formatting of the call for the <command>. Like adding quotation:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} basename "{}"

>Reference

From the man pages:

>>gnu xargs:OPTIONS

-0, --null

Input items are terminated by a null character instead of by whitespace, and the quotes and backslash are not special (every character is taken literally). […] The GNU find -print0 option produces input suitable for this mode.

-I replace-str

Replace occurrences of replace-str in the initial- arguments with names read from standard input.