I've started using ** in Fish instead of find & xargs and I really love it, instead of writing `find . -name '*.py' | xargs wc -l` I can just write `wc -l **.py`
it hasn't 100% replaced `find` for me but I'm definitely using xargs way less than I used to
Julia Evans
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