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xargs is so 20th-century. parallel[0] is way more awesome (especially with all the multi-core systems everybody has now). Cool bonus: all the things you learn f
by slashclee 14y ago
xargs is so 20th-century. parallel[0] is way more awesome (especially with all the multi-core systems everybody has now). Cool bonus: all the things you learn for xargs work in parallel too!
[0]: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
- wwwhizz 14y agoI Was wondering what the difference with running parallel jobs using xargs -P was, but that's covered in their man-page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_between_xargs_and_gnu_parallel http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_be...
- knewter 14y agoA billion times, this. I just learned of GNU Parallel about 3 months ago and wish everyone knew about it. Have seen it used to stunning effect with a comically large pipeline (OCR patents) across a comically large number of EC2 instances. Very awesome indeed.