Package: parallel Version: 20161222-1 Architecture: all Maintainer: Rogério Brito Installed-Size: 997 Depends: perl, procps, sysstat, perl:any Filename: ./all/parallel_20161222-1_all.deb Size: 306754 MD5sum: 66eecfb89b4ad6c91d55912f02c6b64a SHA1: 1b15bf70e72110c5bc8b394e33d9f1689e991a80 SHA256: 4021792d88b1a4c529bd5a0130e968257a1af831e1cf8e505db2ea5900d567a0 Section: utils Priority: extra Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ Description: build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more machines. A job is typically a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, or a list of tables. . If you use xargs today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running jobs in parallel. If you use ppss or pexec you will find GNU Parallel will often make the command easier to read. . GNU Parallel also makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.