war story: parallel(1) command

Sun Jul 28 01:11:19 UTC 2013

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:03:39PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 	find . -type f -xargs0 | xargs -0 -r md5sum
...
> 	find . -type f -print0 | parallel -0 -r md5sum

What was wrong with 'xargs -P 4 -n 1' ?
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William
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