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Got lost about half way throught... > The replacement string {} can be changed with -I: parallel -I ,, echo ,, ::: A/B.C This is way too over my head maybe bu

• yrro 4y ago
  Do you mean the ::: syntax? It's because it's easier to type parallel echo ::: 1 2 3 Than it is to type: printf '1\n2\n3\n' | parallel echo If you mean the -I option, you might sometimes want to pass {} in an argument to a program, which would conflict with parallel replacing {} with an input value; so you can change the replacement string to something else if you need to. I've never liked the GNU Parallel documentation very easy to navigate etc. I wish it was available as an info file instead of a giant manpage... In general GNU Parallel is a much more powerful version of xargs. If you understand why you'd use xargs then you can use parallel for the same sort of stuff, but with more bells and whistles.