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by NortySpock 1195 days ago
I found GNU parallel useful when I wanted to queue up transcoding of flac files to mp3 on my Raspberry Pi. A few ffmpeg flags plus a list of files meant I could easily just saturate one job per core with a one-line bash command.
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I like to use ts(1) for that. http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/
I've used it to parallelise updating hundreds of helm releases whose CI pipelines had ceased to exist. It is a neat tool.
Can you please share the example code in gnu parallel