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UNIX Tricks
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See also `freebsd </software/freebsd-tricks>`_ and 
`debian </software/debian>`_ tricks.

Fork many processes with `xargs`
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To fork off 10 instances of sleep with incremented lengths, 5 at a time::

    $ seq 10 20 | xargs -n 1 -P 5 sleep