From f61026119df4700f69eb73e95620bc5928ca0fcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: User Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:52:09 +0000 Subject: Grand rename for gitit transfer --- software/unix-tricks.page | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 software/unix-tricks.page (limited to 'software/unix-tricks.page') diff --git a/software/unix-tricks.page b/software/unix-tricks.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..265609f --- /dev/null +++ b/software/unix-tricks.page @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +===================================== +UNIX Tricks +===================================== + +See also `freebsd `_ and +`debian `_ tricks. + +Fork many processes with `xargs` +----------------------------------- +To fork off 10 instances of sleep with incremented lengths, 5 at a time:: + +$ seq 10 20 | xargs -n 1 -P 5 sleep + -- cgit v1.2.3