Bug 9511

Summary:	xargs does not support parallel -P
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	Jonathan <jadit2>
Component:	Standard Compliance	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Jonathan 2016-12-26 22:53:33 UTC

A critically needed feature I use a lot is GNU xargs parallel operations. Often the parallel xargs operations are better than the cli util "parallel" for my use-cases. 

Example:
find samplegz | xargs -n1 -P4 sh parse.sh

P4 says have at most 4 commands running at the same time

For examples:
https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/05/01/an-easy-way-to-run-many-tasks-in-parallel/

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2017-08-24 11:24:52 UTC

Fixed in git.