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.

#!/bin/sh

mkdir t
cd t
hg init
echo a > a
hg add a
hg commit -m test -d "0 0"
hg history
hg manifest
hg cat a
hg verify