Re:Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
by betaby on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:42PM
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xargs can do most of the common tasks perl parallel does, see xars -P
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Imho, the main advantage of Parallel is that it can execute the tasks on multiple hosts, straight from the man page:
> GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables.
Re:Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
by mechanical_jane on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:17AM
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This gives an (artificial) example of the power of GNU Parallel over xargs: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405552/using-xargs-...