instead of allowing xargs to execute the action with no positional
parameters.
Also don't try to write to .latest_version if there's no write
permission. This is supposed to be a background/optional operation, so
we don't want to show an error message in this case.
And use Zsh globs instead of find with -exec, and find won't fail if
there's an error with the -exec command.
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