On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Thomas Sattler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> | 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.
The problem here is that 'parallel foo' is even closer similar to:
xargs -I {} -P number_of_cores -n1 bash -c 'foo'
By not putting any options in we are simply saying parallel can solve
the same kind of problems as xargs.
/Ole
