Running Work in Parallel: &, wait and xargs -P

Commands that each take a while can run side by side: & starts each one in the background and wait holds the script until all of them have finished, while xargs -P runs a set number at a time, so 12 one-second photo resizes take 3 seconds instead of 12.

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Cheat sheet for the lesson Running Work in Parallel: &, wait and xargs -P: Commands that each take a while can run side by side: & starts each one in the background and wait holds the script until all of them have finished, while xargs -P runs a set number at a time, so 12 one-second photo resizes…
Category
Bash
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Freelancer
Tags
background-job, cpu-core, linux, parallel-processing, unix, wait, xargs