Re: Parallelism a la make -j n / GNU parallel

2012-05-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Colin McEwan colin.mce...@gmail.com writes: I frequently find myself these days writing shell scripts, to run on multi-core machines, which could easily exploit lots of parallelism (eg. a batch of a hundred independent simulations). The basic parallelism construct of '' for async execution

Re: Built-in printf Sits Awkwardly with UDP.

2011-07-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
the last write. Unfortunately, there's no such thing in stdio. That sounds like a bad design for a log file anyhow. Log entries should get flushed quickly, otherwise you lose the last few log entries before a segfault or signal and have fewer clues about the cause. -- Ben Pfaff http

Re: Bash source repository

2011-05-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
of time to use git mv if some other way is easier. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org

words in COMPWORDS vs. words in COMPREPLY

2010-07-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
difficult. Thanks, Ben. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org