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Discussion on: Shell Pipe Wrapper Functions

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

I don't like xargs

*builds own xargs*

Is there any specific reason for not just using the out-of-the-box xargs instead though?

Also, xargs has the -p option, which can be used to get some parallelism out of your shellscripts.

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Ian Pride

Because of other comments about xargs everywhere I'll be doing a post soon explaining why xargs is almost always a last resort.