Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Maybe we want a --parallel option (too bad -p is taken) for xargs that > forces the creation of the number of processes passed with -P or taken > from nproc (for example by starting "md5sum $1 $5 $9 ...", "md5sum $2 $6 > $10 ...", etc.)? > That would be an interesting alternative to this core-count proposal...
I'm not sure what you mean here. I already suggested to the xargs maintainer that `xargs -P` should be equivalent to xargs -P$(nproc). `nproc` as an external command would still be useful though. cheers, Pádraig.
