&gt; Or wait, you mean the resulting command built by xargs may have a type dependent on the arguments produced by find? That&#x27;s... messy, yeah.<p>Yes! Thinking about interactive CLIs... yes.<p>EDIT: I should add: My main point here is that types would constrict the search space to be <i>reasonable</i>, rather than seeing that &quot;1200 commands are available, do you want to show them all?&quot; prompt. I really think we could be doing <i>much</i> better in this space.