Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-03-05 Thread John Kearney
Am 06.03.2013 01:03, schrieb Linda Walsh: > > John Kearney wrote: >> The example is bad anyway as you normally don't want to parallelize disk >> io , due to seek overhead and io bottle neck congestion. This example >> will be slower and more likely to damage your disk than simply using mv >> on its

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-03-05 Thread Linda Walsh
John Kearney wrote: > The example is bad anyway as you normally don't want to parallelize disk > io , due to seek overhead and io bottle neck congestion. This example > will be slower and more likely to damage your disk than simply using mv > on its own. but thats another discussion. ---

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-03-03 Thread John Kearney
Am 03.03.2013 01:40, schrieb Chet Ramey: >> this is actually more disturbing. >> >> ls | parallel mv {} destdir >> >> find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} -P /bin/mv {} > If we're really going to pick nits here, those two aren't really identical. > > You'd probably want something like > > find .

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-03-02 Thread Chet Ramey
> this is actually more disturbing. > > ls | parallel mv {} destdir > > find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} -P /bin/mv {} If we're really going to pick nits here, those two aren't really identical. You'd probably want something like find . -depth 1 \! -name '.*' -print0 to start. Chet --

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-03-02 Thread Chet Ramey
I'm getting a chance to look at this. > this is actually more disturbing. > > ls | parallel mv {} destdir That's straight from the parallel manual. Pretty much all of the examples are from the parallel manual. Ole Tange, GNU parallel's author, supplied the text and examples. It would be more

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-02-25 Thread John Kearney
Am 26.02.2013 03:36, schrieb Linda Walsh: > > Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 2/25/13 8:07 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: >>> Chet Ramey wrote: On 2/16/13 3:50 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote: > I don't quite see the point of having gnu parallel discussed in the > bash reference manual. I was asked to ad

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-02-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: > On 2/25/13 8:07 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Chet Ramey wrote: >>> On 2/16/13 3:50 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote: I don't quite see the point of having gnu parallel discussed in the bash reference manual. >>> I was asked to add that in May, 2010 by Ole Tange and Richard Stall

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-02-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: > On 2/16/13 3:50 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote: >> I don't quite see the point of having gnu parallel discussed in the >> bash reference manual. > I was asked to add that in May, 2010 by Ole Tange and Richard Stallman. Maybe now that it was done, it can be removed? Or did they as

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-02-18 Thread DJ Mills
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 2/16/13 9:57 AM, Chris Down wrote: > > > 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

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-02-17 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/16/13 9:57 AM, Chris Down wrote: > 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. Consider the FSF's perspective. The fact tha

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-02-17 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/16/13 3:50 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote: > 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 was asked to add that in May, 2010 by Ole Tange and Richard Stallman. Chet -- ``The lyf s

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Down
On 16 February 2013 20:54, John Kearney 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

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-02-16 Thread John Kearney
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 g

gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-02-16 Thread 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