On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Steffen Möller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I googled around but have not found any such request mentioned before. I'd > want to run > find . -name "*.csv" -exec gzip {} + > in parallel. I was looking in "man find" for a make-like -j, did /arallel but > nothing popped up. I found then later xargs' -P > option (great, I'll use that next time) and GNU Parallel somewhen later. So, > the technology and the CLI for those tools are all > long available.
Sounds like you have a choice of technologies. > However, I'd rather strongly suggest to have parallel execution integrated > more visibly with find. Why? > The SEE ALSO section of the man page could have a pointer at least. To what? It contains a pointer to xargs. > I have no idea for other tools that could possibly use some more parallelism. xargs is a fairly general solution to that in the single-system-image case. > > Many thanks > > Steffen > >
