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Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load
Date 2020-06-24 19:50 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:24:23PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> I recommend you look at the parallel package.  It is specifically geared
> toward parallelization of constructed shell command lines.  Think
> something along the lines of "find .... -exec ...." but with the ability
> to parallelize (in a way that considers the available CPU cores on your
> system).

In all honesty, many of us have *tried* to find a use for GNU parallel,
but it really seems to be a hammer looking for a nail.  The aggressive
self-promotion, the huge blob of nagging that it does... all of that, and
it's not even better than GNU xargs -P for 99% of the jobs that need a
tiny bit of parallelization.

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Looping Shell Scripts and System Load "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2020-06-24 19:20 +0200
  Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2020-06-24 19:30 +0200
    Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-24 19:50 +0200
  Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-24 19:50 +0200
    Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2020-06-24 20:40 +0200
      Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-24 21:00 +0200
        Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2020-06-24 22:00 +0200
    Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-06-25 11:30 +0200
      Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-06-25 15:40 +0200
  Re: Looping Shell Scripts and System Load David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-06-24 21:40 +0200

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