tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796103135488572839.post7500301460783920974..comments2024-03-18T07:19:01.302+01:00Comments on Harrykar's Techies Blog: FreeBSD --- Shellharrykarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03245912457689201616noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796103135488572839.post-71897619976260075712010-06-26T08:31:09.154+02:002010-06-26T08:31:09.154+02:00@tange Thanks for your comment. The post is an exc...@tange Thanks for your comment. The post is an excerpt from a book just now. Later i revision it.harrykarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245912457689201616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8796103135488572839.post-63192704354325585662010-06-24T20:18:35.354+02:002010-06-24T20:18:35.354+02:00I like the short intro to the shell, but I am a li...I like the short intro to the shell, but I am a little sad that you introduce xargs and the for loop as the most common use for these are better solved with GNU Parallel http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/<br /><br />Here are a few examples:<br /><br />ls /usr/local/bin/mk* | parallel -v pkg_info -W<br /><br />seq 0 9 | parallel -k echo The number is {}<br /><br />ls | parallel echo {}<br /><brAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com