Do batch things well

I sometimes forget this really easy one liner for doing things in a batch on Linux/MacOS.

# for file in `find . -type f`; do somescript.py $file; done

If you’re relying on the output of find it is probably best to use the xargs option to find like so:

# find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 somescript.py

Even better, you can avoid using xargs, instead use the exec option to find. Although I think this is available only on newer versions of find.

# find . -type f -exec somescript.py '{}' +

Sure, I could’ve written the batch file handling feature as part of my script but why waste my time when there are existing tools that already do one thing well?