On top of shell glob expansion nuances, I think it should be important to note that I hope nobody runs a destructive action before doing a "dry run" first (unless they trust their backups and/or git history).

IOW, I hope all your find deletes are preceded with a run without the -delete flag. If you get into the habit of doing that and then doing any destructive action using a separate process (piping into xargs), you'll be spared from any hair pulling.

My preference is for any complicated shell magic to first do a run which performs `echo` of whatever operation I was doing on a file (eg. `find | xargs echo sed -i 's/foo/bar/' $file`), but there are other ways to achieve the same thing.