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Wait what: `parallel` is a Perl script!? [1]
I would have thought it's black magic with assembler optimisations for MIPS and special considerations for HP-UX...
This is such a lovely and interesting writeup, it's wonderful that people take their time to share so generously!
[1] : an 11k loc petal script, you can read along here: https://github.com/gitGNU/gnu_parallel/blob/master/src/paral...
Here's more information about the configuration file format, in case anyone is curious: http://supervisord.org/configuration.html
My problem is that it's not always immediately clear how software that would normally run as a systemd service could be launched in the foreground instead. It usually takes a bit of digging around.
If anyone needs a pretty basic alternative with Windows support, there's Rush:
https://github.com/shenwei356/rush
I use it pretty extensively with ffmpeg, imagemagick and the like.
I'd been using the mmstick/parallel for a while, but it moved to RedoxOS repos and then stopped being updated, while still having some issues not ironed out.
https://github.com/shenwei356/rush