RE: [Ifile-dev] Adding some extra switches

[Paul Chambers]

That was my first thought too, and the first approach I tried. I must've
spent more than an hour trying to get the shell quoting correct (I have
several maildirs with spaces in their names). I never did find a
combination that passed the correct names into ifile - the ones that
came closest were really ugly, and still didn't work.

However, ifile doesn't seem to like being given large numbers of files
(tens of thousands) to process in one go. The kernel eventually killed
it after trashing VM for a while. I didn't have time to dig deeply into
why. I'll have to come back to it when I have more time.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Jason Rennie
> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 6:06 PM
> To: Paul Chambers
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Ifile-dev] Adding some extra switches 
> 
> address@hidden said:
> > I'm in the process of incorporating some additional command line
> > switches. This was motivated from wanting to be able to 
> > pipe a list of filenames (specifically the output of 'find')
> > into ifile, and have it insert them. 
> 
> Might xargs not be a better way to do this, or do you run into buffer 
> size limits?
> 
> Jason
>