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Re:GNU Parallel – The command line power tool by rcthompson on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @03:41AM (#6210322)
Yes, you can use echo, but that won't work if the command is something like "ls DIR | wc -l".
Re:GNU Parallel – The command line power tool by dredmorbius on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @11:54AM (#6212232)
Depending on how you want to do your counts or piping, you could run that after the xargs / parallel execution, which would be much more efficient (fewer processes and execs) anyhow.