help with qx?

[Randy J. Ray]

> and it will be unlikely that his command will generate enough output to
> fill a stdio buffer in the qx or the open pipe. so looping over the qx
> lines in a list context or reading line by line from the open pipe will
> be about the same speed and storage.

He did specifically say that he expected the command to generate a considerable
amount of output. I suppose that depends on whether his concept of
"considerable" matches ours. Pulling large diffs or log history on a sizable
project could produce fairly large output.

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