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Re:GNU Parallel 2018 by mechanical_jane on Sunday August 18, 2019 @05:37AM (#20729227)
I think your example is wrong:

$ seq 0 5 100000 | parallel touch {}.txt

Or you you really want the infinite loop:

$ yes | parallel touch '{= $_=seq()*5 =}'.txt

'$' must be quoted

$ loop --count-by 5 -- touch '$'COUNT.txt

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