3 Gnu parallel is also awesome, fwiw.
4 -- Rogan Dawes @RoganDawes@twitter
6 I get a weird sense of satisfaction every single time I see the lovely logo of #GNU Parallel (plus, what an underrated piece of great software!)
8 -- Emre Sevinç @EmreSevinc@twitter
11 I have gotten a *ton* of mileage out of jq, awk, and GNU parallel,
12 even at multi-GB sizes.
13 -- Eric Wolak @ericthewolak@twitter
15 GNU parallel, which works a little bit like xargs, but has a much more friendly way of handling files with spaces and automatically parallelises calls. This tool has saved me a great deal of coding because it makes it so easy to write a program which does just one part of a task and then run it in parallel with load balancing and a nice progress bar. I cannot recommend this tool enough.
17 https://negfeedback.blogspot.com/2020/05/indispensable-command-line-tools.html
19 GNU parallel all the way!
20 -- David Manouchehri @DaveManouchehri@twitter
22 I found GNU Parallel and it's awesome.
23 -- Teddy Choi @TeddyJChoi@twitter
25 Well anyway, It was blazingly fast and astonished by performance. Guess I'll never use xargs.
26 -- (Not) Akaming @_Akamig@twitter
28 Yeah, GNU parallel is a beast when used accordingly.
31 GNU Parallel is awesome
32 -- Gaurav Jain @gauravjain49@twitter
34 With multicore systems everywhere GNU Parallel is a must have tool.
35 -- Neil H. Watson @neil_h_watson@twitter
37 My new favourite command line tool is GNU Parallel. After knowing it for a while I just recently came back to it for a refactor of a script and now I've changed like 4 different huge scripts into tiny parallel scripts that do their job literally 3 to 10 times faster and just [mind blown]
38 -- Izzy @angry_izzy@twitter
40 I love so much @GnuParallel to parallelize my SQL requests on @PostgreSQL
41 -- @rmaziere_85 Romain
43 GNU parallel really changed how I do a lot of data processing stuff
44 -- Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix@twitter
46 Parallel is a life send, what an awesome piece of software.
49 It's really powerful for smallish data processing scripts
50 -- João Veiga @jcsvveiga@twitter
52 It's the MapReduce of our generation!
53 -- Mathias Meyer @roidrage@twitter
55 GNU parallel is a seriously powerful flexible and tool.
56 -- Greg Hurrell @wincent@twitter
58 [socat is] top3 on my "crazy and powerful" list (the other two being
59 gnu parallel and emacs).
60 -- Peter Kjellström @nsccap@twitter
62 GNU/Parallel umm... tempting.
63 -- k-leb k @dcatdemon@twitter
65 Ain't that a dirty hack ;-)
68 Not sure if it counts as an "alt" tool but GNU parallel really took my shell scripting game to the next level.
73 Who needs spark when GNU Parallel exists
74 -- MatthijsB @MatthijsBrs@twitter
76 GNU Parallel: dead simple process-level parallelization of ad hoc
77 tasks. Write for a chunk, let gnu manage the splitting, permutations
79 -- Nick Ursa @nickursa@twitter
82 I wish more command line software had example pages as robust as GNU Parallel
83 -- Lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming
85 GNU parallel is straight up incredible.
86 -- Ben Johnson @biobenkj@twtter
88 GNU parallel has helped me kill a Hadoop cluster before.
89 -- Travis Campbell @hcoyote@twitter
91 Parallel is the BEST command.
92 -- Nick @NickInfoSec@twitter
94 [L]earning about parallel was amazing for me, it gives us many beautiful solutions.
95 -- SergioAraujo@stackoverflow
97 I've said it before: The command line program GNU Parallel is a godsend.
98 -- Jo Chr. Oterhals @oterhals
100 IMHO, SQLite and GNU Parallel are among the world's great software.
103 It is, beyond absolutely any doubt whatsoever, the single most
104 important tool I use in making me a productive bioinformatician.
105 -- A-N-Other@reddit.com
107 It is SUPER easy to speed up jobs from the command line w/ GNU parallel.
108 -- B3n @B3njaminHimes@twitter
110 I want to make a shout-out for @GnuParallel, it's a work of beauty and power
111 -- Cristian Consonni @CristianCantoro
113 Amazingly useful script!
116 Y'all need some GNU parallel in your lives
117 -- ChaKu @ChaiLovesChai@twitter
120 There are so many things to love about GNU parallel. You could honestly teach a whole parallel computing course with it and never have to leave it for a real language.
121 -- Aubrey Bailey @DNAvinci@twitter
124 With GNU Parallel you sure can!
125 I like getting things done
127 --Kyle Lady @kylelady@twitter
129 Ok! GNU Parallel is one of the best things out there. Almost as good as vanilla ice cream.
130 -- @coffe@mastodon.art
132 HOLY STUFF I LOVE GNU PARALLEL
133 -- Nick (but spookier) @NickInfoSec@twitter
136 What this country needs is a president with a strong understanding of GNU Parallel, Awk, Sed, Grep, and Diff
137 -- Gregg Housh @GreggHoush
139 I know I'm late to the party but GNU Parallel is truly amazing!
140 -- Sam Diaz-Munoz @sociovirology
142 GNU parallel is a thing of magic.
143 -- Josh Meyer @joshmeyerphd@twitter
145 I've been using GNU Parallel very much and effectively lately.
146 Such an easy way to get huge speed-ups with my simple bash/Perl/Python
147 programs -- parallelize them!
148 -- Ken Youens-Clark @kycl4rk@twitter
151 export them more easily
156 GNU Parallel is cool.
157 Concurrency, but in the Unix-philosophy style,
158 without the Enterprise wankeriness.
159 -- NickM bokkiedog@twitter
161 An ode to GNU parallel
162 An ode to GNU parallel
163 An ode to GNU parallel
164 An ode to GNU parallel
165 An ode to GNU parallel
166 An ode to GNU parallel
167 -- Adam Stuckert PoisonEcology@twitter
170 limit jobs dynamic'ly
175 touches files on disk no more
179 Always test your script
185 used to be a static string
190 all data to all the jobs
194 Speed is good for you
195 Multi speed is better still
200 many job outputs at once:
204 Pipes are fast and good.
205 Use them in your programs, too.
211 niceload dash dash net
220 Functions, vars and other stuff
225 SQL would help a lot.
229 Dash dash pipe too slow?
230 Dash dash pipepart is your friend.
240 You should then learn dash dash pipe.
245 everything is quick and fast
250 faster run than single jobs
255 Doing nothing. I say no!
260 Multiple can run at once.
265 Idle cores is not your thing.
270 Instant cluster needed now?
274 xargs' space and quote
275 headache causing behaviour.
280 Run jobs using Parallel.
285 Want a simpler syntax now?
289 Shellshock pain hits us.
290 Dash dash env is affected.
295 quoting is still a black art
299 bash for loops vanquished
300 jobs fan out over network
304 code fork headache blues?
305 option P is your new friend
310 inflexible replacements?
311 Use Perl expressions.