missed the point. reason to use xargs or parallel are generally two: list of arguments is too long, or list of arguments that is kept in memory would take too much
for example
for a in `find / ` ; do echo $a ; done
will take A LOT of memory, while using find's -exec, xargs, or parallel will not
missed the point. reason to use xargs or parallel are generally two: list of arguments is too long, or list of arguments that is kept in memory would take too much
for example
will take A LOT of memory, while using find's -exec, xargs, or parallel will not