I’m unconvinced by the post OP was responding to. It’s a utility, it provides some means to get things done. *nix provides many means of parsing text and runnin

I’m unconvinced by the post OP was responding to. It’s a utility, it provides some means to get things done. *nix provides many means of parsing text and running commands, each have their idioms based on their own axioms. It seems as if a composer is lambasting the clarinet because they don’t care for its fingerings. I’ve only used xargs sparingly, can somebody enlighten me as to why it’s bad, aside from the fact that there are other ways to do some things it does?