Perl is also helpful to pipe to for any tool that outputs lists of files, like find . -type f -name '*foo' | perl -ne 'print;chomp;unlink' And it has the sa

Perl is also helpful to pipe to for any tool that outputs lists of files, like find . -type f -name '*foo' | perl -ne 'print;chomp;unlink' And it has the same -0 switch as xargs to pair with find's -print0. Not helpful in this case since you have other options, but maybe helpful for things like bulk touch, chmod, etc.