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parallel-20260322

execute jobs in parallel

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Description

GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job is can be 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. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.

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Ports path
sysutils/parallel
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Pascal Stumpf <pascal@stumpf.co>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed

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