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`find` is also notorious for its parameter style. But in my opinion programmers sometimes put too much importance on following conventions. You're not gonna go blind from looking at an incorrectly indented line. If the founding fathers of unix didn't want us creating horrifying monstrosities, they shouldn't have given us unlimited access to argv :)


Fun fact, `find`'s wonky argument syntax predates GNU syntax. It was part of Version 5 Unix from 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_(Unix)


I used find frequently for more than a decade and it just never felt natural to me. I get there in the end but have to stop and think.

With fd, a modern 'equivalent', I barely think just type.

Same for grep.


As was `dd`, another program with an unorthodox syntax.




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