Package: parallel Version: 20240522 Architecture: all Maintainer: Ole Tange Installed-Size: 3390 Depends: perl-modules Filename: all/parallel_20240522_all.deb Size: 2275836 MD5sum: b48f0cc318851a7ed81ed97726273520 SHA1: ab84118e650dea8900c3fb73385f818a2a25df31 SHA256: a912d0970f8b1d67f9491c75525453c0b7d566031b07949e736e9dba9f4638fc 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.