Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-11 Thread Ole Tange
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ole Tange, le Wed 11 Mar 2009 17:05:34 +0100, a écrit : >> One of friends alerted me to your discussion of 'parallel' and whether >> other tools can replace it. > > The question could also be rephrased: ca

Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-11 Thread Ole Tange
One of friends alerted me to your discussion of 'parallel' and whether other tools can replace it. Here are some good examples to try to reproduce without 'parallel': $ ls | grep abc | parallel gzip -c >/tmp/file.gz Try this in a dir with 1000 50 kB sized mixed files with file names that include