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Re: xargs - how to get it to execute input args as "the command"?
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: xargs - how to get it to execute input args as "the command"? |
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Sun, 05 Jan 2014 14:17:37 +0100 |
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On 01/05/2014 12:09 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
>> You can use the "sh -c" trick to run the first argument as the command.
> Do you think the above case could be optimized? As I mentioned in my inital
> query, I wanted to avoid shell overhead on 80 thousand sub-jobs.
Sure, just take any tiny exec utility you like, e.g. 'nice -n0'.
> I.e. is there any reason xargs couldn't run the arguments directly [...]
... well, yes: it's called xARGS ... ;-)
Have a nice day,
Berny