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xargs! Instant concurrency for small scripts.

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Could you go into more detail about how you're using xargs? I'm having trouble understanding how it can be used for concurrency.

xargs --max-procs N (or -P N) starts up to N instances of the called program in parallel, at least with GNU xargs.

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