Conversation

Notices

1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 14:57:45 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • notklaatu
   Listening to GWO 12x15.
   
   @klaatu, I think the killer description that `parallel` needs to explain it to people who have some experience with unix pipes and the tooling around them is this:
   
   > If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU parallel very easy to use as GNU parallel is written to have the same options as xargs.
   
   It's near the top of both home page and man page today, but maybe it wasn't back in 2008, and thus turned you off for a decade by just looking inscrutable and intimidating. :-)
   
   Parallel is just xargs with a twist.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 23-Apr-2018 09:31:01 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     in reply to

     • notklaatu
     Speak of the GNU and it makes a release:
     
     http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9146
     
     > The GNU Parallel 2018 book is now available: http://www.lulu.com/shop/ole-tange/gnu-parallel-2018/paperback/product-23558902.html
     
     Cool! And Lulu is still a thing, apparently.
     
     > Klaatu covers the documentation of GNU parallel in episode 12x15 http://gnuworldorder.info/
     
     Oh hey shoutout to @klaatu! :-)
     
     #gnuparallel
     
     /via http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/111044
     /via https://mastodon.technology/@tuxmachines/99907810922363411 @tuxmachines
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 23-Apr-2018 10:38:04 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • notklaatu
     @klaatu Oh! Wasn't even aware of that mode. Turns out parallel has quite a bit beyond xargs with a twist.
     
     $ parallel echo ::: "those GNU people" ::: "they're kinda cool" "they kinda rule"
     those GNU people they're kinda cool
     those GNU people they kinda rule