Command-line tool

parallel

brew/parallel

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Shell command parallelization utility

At a glance

Windows

cargo install parallel

macOS

brew install parallel
cargo install parallel

Linux

cargo install parallel

Gzip several files at once, using all cores

parallel gzip ::: path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Read arguments from `stdin`, run 4 jobs at once

ls *.txt | parallel -j 4 gzip

Convert JPEG images to PNG using replacement strings

parallel convert {} {.}.png ::: *.jpg

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