Package: parallel Version: 20250622 Architecture: all Maintainer: Ole Tange Installed-Size: 3522 Depends: perl-modules Filename: all/parallel_20250622_all.deb Size: 2367764 MD5sum: ff6c256a115e4ac74161b6f5e4d4f18d SHA1: 1a36f24b7a4d63f685c5ee0ca3d34f763ea609aa SHA256: af3b7215a14f12f6135df083cb82bf0be00eb52450eb6cfc53994d12bb15dd61 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.