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UNIX Tricks
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**See also `freebsd </k/software/freebsd-tricks>`__ and 
`debian </k/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