You can also use xargs.

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2014-02-03 16:10 GMT+01:00 Igor Filippov <igor.v.filip...@gmail.com>:

> How is it different from GNU parallel?
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/GNU-Parallel.html
>
> Igor
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Francois Berenger <beren...@riken.jp>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I do this almost everyday so I think I should share it with this list.
>>
>> In case you need to execute many Open Babel commands
>> and don't want to wait, you can execute them in parallel
>> on a multi-core computer.
>> Of course, the commands should be independent, for example
>> processing different datasets.
>>
>> Let's say the commands are in a file called for_par.sh.
>> I developped a tool called PAR years ago that can do this:
>>
>> par -i for_par.sh -v -o log
>>
>> It will use all cores of the computer, display a completion
>> percentage and store all output messages in the file log.
>>
>> If your user can connect to several computers e.g. via
>> SSH then you can even run commands in a distributed manner.
>> I use it daily on Linux but know some people used it on Mac OS X
>> as well.
>>
>> The project is there:
>>
>> https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/par
>>
>> The paper is freely available there:
>>
>> http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/22/2918.long
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Francois Berenger.
>>
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