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
