> Instead you should be using a proper programming language. Why use many word when few word do trick? Shell scripts are very compact for what they do, and ge

> Instead you should be using a proper programming language. Why use many word when few word do trick? Shell scripts are very compact for what they do, and generally as clear as a similarly quick-and-dirty solution in another language. Ease of learning and use comes from having used the programs you are running in your script. E. g. my small script piping stuff from nmcli to fzf so I can choose a wifi network would be much more difficult to write in Python: I’d need to find a Python library for interacting with NetworkManager, and a library for interactively fuzzy searching in a list, read the docs, spend a while setting up a venv to run it, … I don’t have time for any of that. xargs, in particular, is not difficult to invoke once you’ve done it once or twice, and does a lot. Apart from just being a loop, it also parallelizes execution, and can ask for confirmation from the user for each invocation. Implementing either of these features will take you more than 2-4 chars you need to use it with xargs.