[clug] Made to fix it :-)

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Tue Aug 31 07:12:47 MDT 2010


Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net> writes:

> Just thought I'd share a little amusement from today: we had to search through
> some logs for stuff.  There are quite a few log files per day and we had to
> scan through a week or so.  It's an eight processor machine so I wanted to do
> it in parallel and, in explaining the problem to a friend, I realised that I
> had all the tools I needed: 'make'.  I wrote a Makefile similar to the
> following:

daniel at krosp:~$ dlocate /usr/bin/parallel
moreutils: /usr/bin/parallel
daniel at krosp:~$ whatis parallel
parallel (1)         - run programs in parallel

I like it. :)
        Daniel
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