[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin
From: |
Paul Fox |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:55:29 -0400 |
simon wrote:
> Eric Gillespie wrote:
>
> > We'll see. I'll start with show; do you have any other commands
> > in mind? I'm just not feeling foo | refile; I don't see any way
> > it's better than refile `foo`, unlike scan and show, where you
> > want to see immediate output.
>
> One obvious case with `foo` is where the output of foo will exceed the
> argv space available. For that case, "foo | refile -" would still work,
> but then "foo | xargs refile" would too. This probably isn't a problem
> today for any reasonable OS but I'm still scarred by Ultrix's 20kB
it's not a problem for the OS, but it's certainly a problem for mh:
$ pick all | wc -l
1034
$ refile +foo all
refile: more than 998 messages for /bin/rm exec
but i suppose "foo | refile -" isn't going to change that.
paul
=---------------------
paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 70.9 degrees)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Robert Elz, 2008/08/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Eric Gillespie, 2008/08/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Peter Maydell, 2008/08/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Eric Gillespie, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Simon Burge, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin,
Paul Fox <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Michael O'Dell, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Michael O'Dell, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Chris Garrigues, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Chris Garrigues, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Paul Fox, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Chris Garrigues, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Paul Fox, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Eric Gillespie, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, bergman, 2008/08/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Paul Fox, 2008/08/18