On 16 February 2013 20:54, John Kearney <dethrop...@web.de> wrote: > Am 16.02.2013 09:50, schrieb Pierre Gaston: > > I don't quite see the point of having gnu parallel discussed in the > > bash reference manual. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#GNU-Parallel > > I don't argue that it can be a useful tool, but then you might as well > > discuss sed awk grep make find etc.. > > Or even the ones not part of the standard toolset since parallel is > > not installed by default even on the linux distribution I know: flock > > fdupes recode convmv rsync etc... > Actually xargs could do everything listed better. and is installed by > default on most systems. > > On top of that the examples teach incorrect things eg, "the common > > idioms that operate on lines read from a file"(sic) > > > > for x in $(cat list); do > > > > doesn't even read lines! > this is actually more disturbing. > > ls | parallel mv {} destdir > > find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} -P <NumJobs> /bin/mv {} <destdir> > > > > I'd say this should be removed. > > > Or the examples should at least be fixed. there are terrible practices > being shown there. > > Count me also in favour of removal of this section. At best the entire section needs a complete rewrite, but why on earth we have a whole section dedicated to a nonstandard external tool is kind of baffling.
Chris
