Re: [Help-bash] parallel processing in bash (to replace for loop)

[Peng Yu]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:57:59PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
>> I have see a number of ways to parallelize for loop. However, none of
>> the methods is syntactically clean and easy (as I would want, maybe
>> they are good enough for others) to use with bash. I'm wondering what
>> is the best practice to parallelize a for loop in bash as of now.
>
> for i in {1..5}; do
>  foobar "$i" &
> done
> wait
>
> See also http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement

This won't work if you have many foobar to run.

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Regards,
Peng