Package: parallel
Description: Execute multiple jobs
Version: 20110622
Revision: 1
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
Maintainer: Jesse Alama <jesse.alama@gmail.com>
Source: mirror:gnu:%n/%n-%v.tar.bz2
Source-MD5: 101ce0d674d43b3051c868bbc8b3ed60
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GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel 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 in parallel. If you use ppss or pexec you will find GNU parallel
will often make the command easier to read.

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 | sh.
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License: GPL