Paul Vixie <[email protected]> writes: > On 11/26/2012 9:42 PM, [email protected] 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 - -- Christian Neukirchen <[email protected]> http://chneukirchen.org _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
