war story: parallel(1) command

Sat Jul 27 23:30:04 UTC 2013

On 13-07-26 11:03 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 
> I was previously unaware of the Gnu parallel command.  Pretty neat.

Handy indeed. I've got this little script that generates shell output to
convert FLACs to MP3s, but only one at a time. With parallel, I can use
all of the cores!

cheers,
 Stewart

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