GNU Parallel - Summary
This project is part of the GNU Project.
NAME
parallel - build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
DESCRIPTION
GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs concurrently locally or using remote computers. A job is typically a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables.
If you use xargs today you will find GNU parallel very easy to use as GNU parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs simultaneously.
GNU parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU parallel as input for other programs.
For each line of input GNU parallel will execute command with the line as arguments. If no command is given, the line of input is executed. Several lines will be run in parallel. GNU parallel can often be used as a substitute for xargs or cat | bash.
Before looking at the options you may want to check out the examples after the list of options. That will give you an idea of what GNU parallel is capable of.
EXAMPLES
You may want to watch the intro video for a quick introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ
Go through the tutorial http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html or
see the man page or https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#EXAMPLE:-Working-as-xargs--n1.-Argument-appending
for more examples.
Registration Date: Mon 27 Aug 2007 02:16:53 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
posted by tange, Sat 23 Apr 2022 11:19:46 AM UTC - 0 replies
GNU Parallel 20220422 ('Буча') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
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Immensely useful which I am forever grateful that it exists.
-- AlexDragusin@ycombinator
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posted by tange, Tue 22 Mar 2022 10:29:36 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU Parallel 20220322 ('Маріу́поль') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
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My favorite software, ever. Keep the good work.
-- Federico Alves @federicoalves@twitter
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posted by tange, Wed 23 Feb 2022 06:32:00 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU Parallel 20220222 ('Donetsk Luhansk') has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
This release has a major change in the remote code. This makes this release beta quality.
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I also prefer gnu parallel. Mainly because it makes embarrassingly
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posted by tange, Sat 22 Jan 2022 03:43:58 PM UTC - 0 replies
GNU Parallel 20220122 ('20 years') [stable] has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
No new functionality was introduced so this is a good candidate for a stable release.
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I'm going to make GNU parallel my new superpower this year.
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