This feels like gatekeeping someone sharing something cool they've recently learned.

I personally lean more towards the "let's share cool little productivity tips and tricks with one another" instead of the "in order to share this you have to meet [entirely arbitrary line of novelty/cleverness/originality]."

But each to their own I suppose. I wonder how you learned about using xargs? Maybe a blog-post or article not dissimilar to this one?

And they have to learn that from cia?

That says so much about the generation we are in, just don’t go to school but learn math from mafia

It's cool that it comes from CIA, and someone who doesn't know about xargs may just learn something new. What is not to like?

Lots of negative sentiment on your comment, but I was going to write the same. Hopefully AI won’t make us forget that good command line tools are designed to be chained together if you want to achieve something that’s perhaps too niche as a use case to make it into a native command. It’s worth learning about swiss army utilities like xargs that make this easy (and fun)

Seriously, this seems like someone in awe of xargs. Maybe its the Bell Labs in me but this is boilerplate stuff.

People really do need to read the “Unix Power Tools” book and realize their problem has been solved for decades.

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