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Author: Mark Baker
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To: Adrian Bool
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: help
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Adrian Bool 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.


xargs will handle this for you, it puts several onto the command line of
each program it starts: you can control exactly what it does with the -n
(maximum number of arguments per process started) and -s (maximum total
length of arguments per process)


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