From ed7345473ed425773d74e635974e5a8f88718a14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Louwrentius Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:01:55 +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 4fe6d60..f74b8ee 100644 --- a/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki +++ b/wiki/whynotxargs.wiki @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ 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. +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. A simple example that demonstrates how xargs can be used: `$ touch 10 15 20 25 30 35 40`