My take-away is that you should use reliable tools, and as few as possible. If you read it like that then the reason to not do what you said is that `find` and

My take-away is that you should use reliable tools, and as few as possible. If you read it like that then the reason to not do what you said is that `find` and `xargs` are more reliable than what I realistically be able to achieve with ifs and cats.