From 721efc49258c92ef4db60a49e09713e289932900 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Louwrentius Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:00:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Edited wiki page through web user interface. --- wiki/whynotxargs.wiki | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki b/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki index c0aec06..1f41de2 100644 --- a/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki +++ b/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ = Introduction = -It is suggested that the command 'xargs' that is often found on unix-like systems by default does exactly the same as PPSS does when used with the -p option. +It is suggested that the command 'xargs' - that is often found on unix-like systems by default - does exactly the same as PPSS does when used with the -p option. In it's most basic form, this is true to some extend. Xargs processes items and keeps an x number of jobs running in parallel. I think that there may be cases that xargs is sufficient for your task at hand.