zsh's extended globbing support makes the use of find unnecessary in most cases. See the "extended globbing" section of the link below[1] for some examples. z

zsh's extended globbing support makes the use of find unnecessary in most cases. See the "extended globbing" section of the link below[1] for some examples. zsh also has the 'zargs' command, which works something like xargs, except that it gets its arguments from the command line (often in conjunction with extended globbing) rather than from stdin. You might also be interested in reading about the "useless uses of cat"[2] [1] - http://linuxgazette.net/184/silva.html http://linuxgazette.net/184/silva.html [2] - http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html