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Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin
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Simon Burge |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:18:04 +1000 |
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
ARG_MAX (and the silly app we use to use that needed > 10k of that just
for environment variables).
I'm not sure what I think of the original idea yet.. Harald's example
of using this instead of "pick last:n" seems most useful, but at least
for the way I use "pick last:n" for varying "n" I'd find something like
"pick -reverse whatever | scan -" more useful, where pick started at the
end of the message range. I'm usually interested in the most recent
message that matches.
Cheers,
Simon.
- [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Eric Gillespie, 2008/08/15
- 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 <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin, Paul Fox, 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, 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