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gnu-parallel

Parallelise rsync using GNU Parallel

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I have been using a rsync script to synchronize data at one host with the data at another host. The data has numerous small-sized files that contribute to almost 1.2TB.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags gnu-parallel, linux, rhel, rsync Leave a comment

GNU parallel vs & (I mean background) vs xargs -P

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m confused about the difference or advantage (if any) of running a set of tasks in a .sh script using GNU parallel

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags background-process, gnu-parallel, shell-script, xargs Leave a comment

Why does (GNU?) parallel fail silently, and how do I fix it?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

In a larger script to post-process some simulation data I had the following line:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags gnu-parallel, moreutils-parallel Leave a comment

How to run x instances of a script parallel?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I have script I’d always like to run ‘x’ instances in parallel.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, gnu-parallel, parallelism Leave a comment

Why doesn’t GNU parallel work with “bash -c”?

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

% echo -e '1n2' | parallel "bash -c 'echo :$1' '' {}" :1 :2 % echo -e '1n2' | parallel bash -c 'echo :$1' '' {} % I’d expect the second line to act the same. Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help … Read more

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, gnu-parallel, quoting, shell Leave a comment
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