I have made a tool called parallel. It combines the best from xargs, find -exec, and cat|sh with the ability to run a number of commands in parallel.
Parallel can - just like xargs - be used on its own, but is too small to qualify for its own package. I would therefore like to see it adopted by findutils at some point. But first you should point your browser to: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ and to: http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/gitweb/?p=parallel.git;a=snapshot;h=67f2a6dfaa3c343044c7f420a9e414935016e6d8 Feel free to comment, Ole Tange
