wok-current diff parallel/description.txt @ rev 25474
openjdk-6-src: use find from findutils in place of busybox find
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Thu Oct 13 16:42:57 2022 +0100 (2022-10-13) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/parallel/description.txt Thu Oct 13 16:42:57 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ 1.4 +GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel 1.5 +using one or more computers. 1.6 +A job can be a single command or a small script that has to 1.7 +be run for each of the lines in the input. 1.8 +The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a 1.9 +list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. 1.10 +A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU 1.11 +parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands 1.12 +in parallel.