Re:GNU Parallel 2018
by LeoPanthera on Saturday August 17, 2019 @07:26PM
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I routinely use it for casual tasks and I've never read the manual. Don't confuse complexity with difficulty.
> That is enough to scare me off of trying to use parallel for casual tasks.
Just because emacs is such a complex software, does that mean no one can start learning it? No. As far as GNU parallel goes simply just understand what `:::` operator does and you can start using it in your workflow today. Software is not complex for the sake of beginners, it is complex so experts have a higher variety of features.
Re:GNU Parallel 2018
by mechanical_jane on Sunday August 18, 2019 @04:56AM
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Maybe the cheat sheet is made for you: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_cheat.pdf
My first thought was, "12 pages isn't so bad." Then I loaded the page and realized you had a typo and meant _112_ page manual.
That is enough to scare me off of trying to use parallel for casual tasks.