Make xargs handle filenames that contain spaces

Question

$ ls *mp3 | xargs mplayer  

Playing Lemon.  
File not found: \'Lemon\'  
Playing Tree.mp3.  
File not found: \'Tree.mp3\'  

Exiting... (End of file)  

Answer 1

On macOS 10.12.x (Sierra), if you have spaces in file names or subdirectories, you can use the following:

find . -name '*.swift' -exec echo '"{}"' \; |xargs wc -l