GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?

Re:GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? by runeks on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:33AM (#37210956)

If doing even simple things requires looking up documentation, why does it matter whether the shell script is long or short?

Spending extra time doing simple things — because you need to Google e.g. "how to pass multiple space-separated arguments from a string to a command" — is also a waste of time.

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Re:GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? by coliveira on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:16PM (#37225786)

Because the shell is available everywhere. A programming language needs to be installed first to be of any use. I still understand that there is a need for a simple command processor that is independent of a programming language for simple tasks.

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Re:GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? by runeks on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:52PM (#37227019)

> A programming language needs to be installed first to be of any use.

I have that taken care of already

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Re:GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? by coliveira on Thursday August 24, 2023 @01:53PM (#37252295)

This works for you, but many people don't have the luxury of knowing which languages are installed in another system.

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