James Youngman wrote:
You can use the "sh -c" trick to run the first argument as the command.
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Do you think the above case could be optimized? As I mentioned in my inital
query, I wanted to avoid shell overhead on 80 thousand sub-jobs.
I.e. is there any reason xargs couldn't run the arguments directly -- i.e.
taking the first word of input as a program to run and either do a path
lookup, OR require an absolute path (either would be fine)
You can use -d to select the delimiter.
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That will work.. didn't see it would override the normal quote
processing... Thanks!
I looked at 'parallel' and 'sem' as well, and they want a command on
the command line as well... geez... you'd think something would
take a list of command in a file and run them in parallel (subject
to load constraints) w/o having to run a shell w/each command.
Hard to believe such a simple thing wouldn't be an option...but
is there any reason why putting a "-I {}" by itself on the command
line shouldn't work?
(tried "exec", but I guess that is a shell builtin...sigh)...
