Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > for i in `ls`; do > > echo -n "$i: "; > > procmail < $i && rm $i; > > echo "done."; > > done > > I still don't understand what was going on, but with this one it worked fine. > > (for i in `ls`; do echo -n "$i: "; procmail < $i && rm $i; echo "done."; > done) > ../log 2>&1 &
Not to say that this is the cause of slowness, but you may still want to change the `ls` to *. This will save running ls, and opening and closing a pipe: for i in *; do ... -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.
