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
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