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While we're on the topic and on the wave of modern riffs on classic tools, personally I'm pining for a remake of xargs—because I never can whack it into submiss
by aasasd 6y ago
While we're on the topic and on the wave of modern riffs on classic tools, personally I'm pining for a remake of xargs—because I never can whack it into submission with anything more complex than `xargs rm`. Specifically, passing multiple arguments from the input to the called command apparently just can't be properly done, at least not on OSX.
- nick0garvey 6y agoparallel may be what you are looking for: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/GNU-Parallel.html https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/GNU-Paral... The defaults are a lot saner, and it's easier to pass arguments how you want.
- aasasd 6y agoHmm, I guess I considered Unix utils rather narrowly specialized, so `parallel` meant ‘my CPU got too many free cores’ for me. I'll take a closer look at it, thanks.