On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > Philip, any chance of making exim accept input for the -M options
> > on the std input? I don't know how xargs will execute this
> > but we usually recurse through a list, making it very inefficent
> > by starting up the exim binary say, 1000 times.
>
> Gulp! Well, it could be done, of course. Idea noted.
>
> > Undoubtedly another option would be added onto the command line
> > to inform exim of this...
>
> I suppose, following precedent, the syntax could be
>
> exim -M -
>
> In the meantime, you could write a program or script to call Exim with
> say 100 ids on a command line, thus reducing your 1000 start-ups to 10.
But isn't that what xargs is for ?
DHS
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