Bits and pieces of John Dalton from all over your internet. - tagged with unix http://johndalton.info/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron john@johndalton.info Parallel processing from a command queue on Linux (bash, python, ruby... whatever) - Stack Overflow http://johndalton.info/items/view/2772/parallel-processing-from-a-command-queue-on-linux-bash-python-ruby-whatever-stack-overflow

Example (in comments) showing how xargs can be used to queue parallel command processing. Wonderfully simple and effective approach.

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Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:26:00 -0500 http://johndalton.info/items/view/2772/parallel-processing-from-a-command-queue-on-linux-bash-python-ruby-whatever-stack-overflow
Command-line Fu < The best UNIX commands on the web http://johndalton.info/items/view/111/command-line-fu-lt-the-best-unix-commands-on-the-web

Tim found this - kinda like delicious or digg for *nix one-liners.

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