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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by rustyminnow on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:14PM (#33360788)
Do you have examples of concurrent use-cases that xargs and parallel don't satisfy? I discovered parallel recently and was blown away by how much it improves things. I've only really used it in basic scenarios so far, just wondering where its limitations are.
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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by ducktective on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:35PM (#33361966)
running a bash function with its own private variables in parallel. without having to export it.
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