On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 16:34:10 erik quanstrom wrote: > my knee-jerk reaction to my own question is that making it easier > and more natural to parallelize dataflow. a pipeline is just a really > low-level way to talk about it. the standard > grep x *.[ch] > forces all the *.[ch] to be generated before 1 instance of grep runs on > whatever *.[ch] evaluates to be. > > but it would be okay for almost every use of this if *.[ch] were generated > in parallel with any number of grep's being run.
(in Linux terms, sorry!) you can get close with find|xargs -- it runs the command for every -L <number> lines of input. AFAIK xargs does not parallelize the execution itself. find -name '*.[ch]' | xargs -L 8 grep REGEX -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]] I'm sorry that this was such a long letter, but I didn't have time to write you a short one. -- Blaise Pascal
