Some xargs
scripts, shell | pfortuny | (1)
Rafacas has already mentioned it, but xargs is sometimes much more useful than what it looks like. Two examples come to mind:
Way too many files for rm or ls. It may well happen that a script has generated more than 10000 files in the same directory (it was your friend, not you, I know). If you try and rm * in there, you will be in trouble. Ditto if you simply want to count them with ls | wc -l. However, the following works:
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls | wc -l
(or rm instead of ...