status: added option -p and -0 to assist xargs The -p option strips the status prefix of each file, while -0 ends each file with a NUL character, instead of a newline. Together, selected group of files can be passed to 'xargs -0' for further processing.

\.elc$
\.orig$
\.rej$
~$
\.so$
\.pyc$
\.swp$
\.prof$
^tests/.*\.err$
^build/
^dist/
^doc/.*\.[0-9](\.(x|ht)ml)?$
^MANIFEST$
^\.pc/
^patches/
^mercurial/__version__.py$