Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:10:48 +0000, jay wrote: > To be honest it's a little difficult to evaluate your question without > a fuller understanding of your use case. From what you say so far, it > appears to perhaps be that you want to use %I to use as a hash key > allowing you to select one of several parallel backend services in > some kind of fair manner.
Yes. > If however, you are trying to do something like this I would encourage > you to use an auxiliary script to do it. You could maintain the > sequence number in a file and use advisory locks to arbitrate access > to it, for example. Sure, that is an option, but xargs would easily have this information ... An alternative (with more general possibilities) would be %P: the position of the first argument of the current processor-program call. Greetings Sven
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