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Well, it's a different matter to depend on one standalone tool then to depend on a specific coreutils.
by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
Well, it's a different matter to depend on one standalone tool then to depend on a specific coreutils.
- duskwuff 10y agoI'd bet on GNU xargs being more likely to be installed than GNU Parallel. One of the two is part of a standard package that all Linux systems, and many non-Linux systems, have installed. The other is a special-purpose tool.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago>I'd bet on GNU xargs being more likely to be installed than GNU Parallel. Your bet is irrelevant in the face of widely implemented standards. POSIX will outlive GNU coreutils. I'd bet your system also probably has a package manager that makes it easy to mark parallel as a dependency of your software. >many non-Linux systems Linux is pretty much the only system that typically ships GNU coreutils. The only one that comes to mind is Hurd.