On 01/05/2014 12:09 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
>> You can use the "sh -c" trick to run the first argument as the command.

> Do you think the above case could be optimized?  As I mentioned in my inital
> query, I wanted to avoid shell overhead on 80 thousand sub-jobs.

Sure, just take any tiny exec utility you like, e.g. 'nice -n0'.

> I.e. is there any reason xargs couldn't run the arguments directly [...]

... well, yes: it's called xARGS ... ;-)

Have a nice day,
Berny

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