From 98bb52d91bfd9236b929b4407dd82eff619d0035 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Louwrentius Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:01:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Edited wiki page through web user interface. --- wiki/whynotxargs.wiki | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki b/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki index 1f41de2..4fe6d60 100644 --- a/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki +++ b/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ It is suggested that the command 'xargs' - that is often found on unix-like syst 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. `$ touch 10 15 20 25 30 35 40` + `$ ls -1 | xargs -n1 -P 4 sleep` The additional value of PPSS is that it: