bug#60506: feature: parallel grep --recursive

2023-01-03 Thread Paul Jackson
David Pickett wrote: << I also wrote a simpler, line oriented, faster xargs, fxargs! >> I've been quite pleased with an xargs wrapper I wrote that basically converts newlines to nuls, and then invokes either "xargs" or, if asked to run multiple threads, "parallel --xargs", passing all the "xargs"

bug#60506: feature: parallel grep --recursive

2023-01-03 Thread David G. Pickett
It seems like we have 2 suggestions: parallel in different files and parallel is large files.  - Parallel in different files is two ways tricky since you need threads and mutex on the file name stream, and in addition for parallel directories, some sort of threads and queue to pass the file name