> dd: I suspect this might not be portable if we want an optimized version.
> find: Useless, just do `du -a | grep blabla'

and a 'find -type d -name xxxx -prune -o -type f -perm g=x -exec chmod g-x {} 
\; '?
find is a mini language for run over directories, and it is a must.

> xargs: Why?

if you have a directory with a very, very, very, very large number of files and
then you try a 'rm *' you will see why you need xargs. I use it a lot in 
combination
with find. For example in the previous example a better way (faster):

find -type d -name xxxx -prune -o -type f -perm g=x | xargs chmod g-x

Regards,

-- 
Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
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'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work
together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a
universal interface'

(Doug McIlroy)

In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd
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