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by jmiserez 2661 days ago
Yes. Another issue: The author has been promoting GNU Parallel pretty heavily on many StackOverflow questions dealing with xargs or parallel execution, even when an additional tool is neither needed nor wanted (because it's a) not already installed, unlike xargs, and b) because of the aforementioned citation issue which I disagree with).

It's a great tool I'm sure, but I've been able to get by using just xargs, flock, etc., for most usecases.