i don't know if xargs cant, but i use gnu parallel to split an input pipe into N parallel pipes processing slices of the input stream. Edit: To clarify, xargs

i don't know if xargs cant, but i use gnu parallel to split an input pipe into N parallel pipes processing slices of the input stream. Edit: To clarify, xargs usually wants to spin up a process per task. I have parallel spin up N processes and then continuously feed them.