> …awkwardly and verbosely reimplements 'xargs -P'… Verbose, and almost guaranteed to be more accurate. The thing about python/ruby/perl is that when you do th

> …awkwardly and verbosely reimplements 'xargs -P'… Verbose, and almost guaranteed to be more accurate. The thing about python/ruby/perl is that when you do things the programmatic way you get safety by default. You don't have to remember to 'find -0 | xargs -0' and thing aren't going to bite you in the butt when filenames have spaces in them. Yes, you can make all that work with shell (heaven knows I've done it), but it's more work and sadly isn't shell's default state.