Paul Vixie <paul(_at_)redbarn(_dot_)org> writes:
On 11/26/2012 9:42 PM, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
Anybody who subscribes to the Linux-kernel list is going to be
deleting about 700 messages a day. So if you took a 3-day weekend you
can be looking at 2,000+ messages to delete. exmh has some
special-case code that does it in chunks of 998 messages at a time.
using argv[] to carry bulk data is gauche.
A useful convention I have seen lately, but which probably breaks MH
expectations is to allow an argument of "-" to read the *arguments* from
stdin.
find ... | rmm -
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Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
http://chneukirchen.org
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