Package: parallel Version: 20161222-1 Architecture: all Maintainer: Rogério Brito Installed-Size: 997 Depends: perl, procps, sysstat Filename: ./all/parallel_20161222-1_all.deb Size: 307178 MD5sum: 2f5095c4fac55f8a0d5f22cf1d9bbb4c SHA1: 68473abadc26971c8e5cbab264507e6d5a7feaca SHA256: cb128bb4c64ea8385333df0ee7345db3422c24afacf4fb3a3f7ce56aa72a34b9 Section: utils Priority: extra Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ Description: build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more machines. 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, or a list of tables. . If you use xargs today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use. 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 jobs in parallel. If you use ppss or pexec you will find GNU Parallel will often make the command easier to read. . GNU Parallel also 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.