Properly escaping output from pipe in xargs

Example: % touch -- safe-name -name-with-dash-prefix "name with space" \ 'name-with-double-quote"' "name-with-single-quote'" \ 'name-with-backslash\' xargs can't seem to handle double quotes: % ls | xargs ls -l xargs: unmatched double quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option ls: invalid option -- 'e' Try 'ls --help' for more information. If we use the -0 option, it has trouble with name that has dash prefix: % ls -- * | xargs -0 -- ls -l -- ls: invalid option -- 'e' Try 'ls --help' for more information. This is before using other potentially problematic characters like newline, control character, etc.