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Re:I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs by brokenmachine on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:36AM (#48988835)
I'm not new to command line tools, but I somehow managed to delete ~10k pictures while trying to use parallel to resize them.

I forget the details but it was some kind of surprisingly weird foot-gun behavior.

Luckily I had a backup, but it really has made me scared to try using parallel again.

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