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I don't even bother using 'find' to actually find files. 'du -a <path> | grep <name>' works easily enough and I don't have to remember find's weird syntax.

I use the ffind program instead. It's just so much easier with saner defaultq.

I'm not sure there's much upside in using -delete, -exec etc. from find since they're redundant and can be replaced by composition; half the time, I want to stick a grep -v in there between the found paths and the execution, so xargs is usually handier than not. (I have a tool called print0 which converts line terminators to nulls, so I can use xargs -0 along with grep etc. without needing to use -print0.)

A better alternative to xargs is `find <stuff> -exec rm {} +` (though of course -delete is simpler).

But there are cases where `-delete` or `-exec` aren't enough, and xargs allows better handling.

For that matter, why do we need xargs and not just `find <stuff? | rm`?