Hi there ... I vote for changing the first paragraph in OPTIONS:
| | If command is given, GNU parallel will behave | similar to xargs. | I think this misleading, as in fact it is more like this: parallel <--> xargs -n 1 parallel -m <--> xargs Ole is not sure what'd be the least confusing. He suggested to discuss this on the mailinglist, so here we are. I think we should mention "-n 1" to help people that do not read the entire manpage. Thomas
