Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2009-03-08
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : parallel
> Version : 20090218
> Upstream Author : Ole Tange
> * URL : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/
> * License : GPLv3
> Description : build and execute command lines from standard input in
> parallel
> For each line of input parallel will execute command with the line
> as arguments. If no command is given the line of input is executed.
> parallel can often be used as a substitute for xargs or cat | sh.
>
Did you know about the `-P' option of GNU xargs? IIUC, it does quite the
same thing -- what does 'parallel' offer of that functionality?
>From xargs(1):
--max-procs=max-procs
-P max-procs
Run up to max-procs processes at a time; the default is 1.
If max- procs is 0, xargs will run as many processes as
possible at a time. Use the -n option with -P; otherwise
chances are that only one exec will be done.
Regards, Rotty
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