A small primer on xargs

Re:A small primer on xargs by slashclee on Monday May 14, 2012 @03:27AM (#3969900)

xargs is so 20th-century. parallel[0] is way more awesome (especially with all the multi-core systems everybody has now). Cool bonus: all the things you learn for xargs work in parallel too!

[0]: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

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Re:A small primer on xargs by wwwhizz on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:29AM (#3970191)

I Was wondering what the difference with running parallel jobs using xargs -P was, but that's covered in their man-page: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_be...

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Re:A small primer on xargs by knewter on Monday May 14, 2012 @09:04AM (#3970845)

A billion times, this. I just learned of GNU Parallel about 3 months ago and wish everyone knew about it. Have seen it used to stunning effect with a comically large pipeline (OCR patents) across a comically large number of EC2 instances. Very awesome indeed.

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