parallel xargs
Apr 26, 2018
To run a script in parallel using xargs:
printf %d\\n {0..9} | xargs -n 1 -P8 sleep In this case sleep is going to be call 8 times (-P8) using has the input an int from 0 to 9.
From the man:
-P maxprocs Parallel mode: run at most maxprocs invocations of utility at once.
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