From dc910dc705eddb82c27035bcb5f880cf16ff175b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:19:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Changed the erorr message issued when there is an unmatched
 quote to point out that the user might have wanted to use the -0 option
 instead.

---
 xargs/xargs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xargs/xargs.c b/xargs/xargs.c
index 3780d3fd..29717f7c 100644
--- a/xargs/xargs.c
+++ b/xargs/xargs.c
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ read_line (void)
 
 	case QUOTE:
 	  if (c == '\n')
-	    error (1, 0, _("unmatched %s quote"),
+	    error (1, 0, _("unmatched %s quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option"),
 		   quotc == '"' ? _("double") : _("single"));
 	  if (c == quotc)
 	    {