Look! An xargs!! (Re: recursive grep)

[Andrew Hume]

please, no more!!
people wanting to write xargs (or programs sort of like xargs)
should form their own newsgroup. every implementation seen so far,
and there have been a swag of them, has been wrong. in the sense
of being incorrect. if you really feel like you REALLY have to
write an xargs, presumably as a rite of passage, test it before
posting it (to some other group). a minimal test would include
the horror directory that chesson or bourne used to keep that had
all the legal single character filenames.