MainJane

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by MainJane 4y ago
If you feel I am "moving the goalposts" why not just prove your original case? If you are spending 5 minutes on reading the source code, why not instead spend them on proving your original assertion is correct? You can then let th
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by MainJane 5y ago
Honestly, I fail to see the problem, if I had to run `ls --no-awesome-ls-pro-upgrade-msg` once when I installed it the first time. And if I did not like it, I could use one of the alternatives to `ls` or build my own. In LibreOffice I have
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by MainJane 5y ago
> This is an unreasonable standard when you do not know in advance how big the output is. Why is that unreasonable? Let us say a single job outputs 10% of the free space. As long as you run fewer than 10 jobs in parallel, GNU paralel can
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by MainJane 5y ago
> The comparison is not very fair to modern day xargs. I am curious how you come to that conclusion. > `nproc` is a relatively standard utility (coreutils). So, xargs -P$(nproc) gets you core (or core-proportional) parallelism. I foll
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by MainJane 5y ago
Would it not be more fruitful addressing the hard issue: Funding. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita... I think many free software developers would rejoice if you cracked that p
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by MainJane 5y ago
I think that is the right thing to do: Don't like it? Don't use it. Also: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita...
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by MainJane 5y ago
I was curious how much breakage GNU Parallel has suffered. So I fetched all versions (in parallel) and ran: parallel -k --tag --argsep -- {} echo ::: 1 -- parallel-* Every version since 20120622 work (except for 20121022). That is
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by MainJane 5y ago
Also try: parallel --tmux ...
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by MainJane 5y ago
cat hosts.txt | parallel --quote --timeout=10 ssh {} 'echo {} $(md5sum ~/.config/file)' Also try: parallel --slf hosts.txt --timeout=10 --nonall --tag md5sum .config/file
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by MainJane 5y ago
> I don't care what GNU thinks, but it's simply not scalable. How so? A lot of software requires you to configure it before the first run, and we regard that as scalable. A lot of software requires you to pay for it before the
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by MainJane 5y ago
I still remember when those were not of the "OK, don't show this again" type, so you could not simply stop them first after the first run.
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by MainJane 5y ago
> If you're not describing an experiment or system that uses GNU parallel as one of its key components then it makes no sense to cite it any more than it does to cite any other utility. GNU Parallel agrees with you, but also gives y
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by MainJane 5y ago
git-bisect is nice if you are looking for a git commit. If you are looking for a limit or the failing part of a file have a look at: https://gitlab.com/ole.tange/tangetools/-/tree/master/find-f...
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by MainJane 5y ago
> Try using GNU parallel to sort a list of numbers, [...] – it's not possible, Yet it clearly is possible, so your blanket statement is clearly wrong. `parsort` a simple wrapper, and this really goes for many uses of GNU Parallel:
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by MainJane 5y ago
> Try using GNU parallel to sort a list of numbers, `parsort` is part of GNU Parallel.
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by MainJane 5y ago
In your examples you fail to put 'xargs -P' in the middle of a pipeline: You only put it at the end. In other words: some command | xargs -P other command | third command This is useful if 'other command' is slow.
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by MainJane 5y ago
Have you read the FAQ? https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita...
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by MainJane 5y ago
Your `do_one`: * does not buffer stderr * does not check if the disk is full for a period of time during a task (thus risking incomplete output) * does not clean up, if killed * does not work correctly if task_with_stdout is a com
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by MainJane 5y ago
> anything that is more than a single script ... which is exactly what GNU Parallel is. Your concern is even mentioned in the design documentation: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html
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by MainJane 5y ago
It is documented in the GNU Parallel documentation: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_alternatives.... If you seriously believe you can implement everything using xargs, then this (contrived) example