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xargs can do most of the common tasks perl parallel does, see xars -P
by betaby 6y ago
xargs can do most of the common tasks perl parallel does, see xars -P
- RMPR 6y agoImho, the main advantage of Parallel is that it can execute the tasks on multiple hosts, straight from the man page: > GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables.
- mechanical_jane 6y agoThis gives an (artificial) example of the power of GNU Parallel over xargs: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405552/using-xargs-instead-of-gnu-parallel https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405552/using-xargs-...