2003-06-05 (v1.02)
Fixed dumb typo that totally broke CPU detection.
2003-05-27
It was pointed out to be recently that this functionality is available
through "xargs". However, the way to get there is a bit convoluted. To
do line-at-a-time processing with xargs, you have to use the "-0" option,
and replace your newlines with NULL characters. This solution, however,
still does not autodetect how many CPUs you have. So, to make things nicer
I'm going to have to write a C program to be a shell interface to the POSIX
"sysconf" call. In the meantime, the command line that you'd want is:
(for i in ...; do echo cmds $i; done) | \
perl -pe 's/\n/\x00/' | xargs -0 -n1 -P2 bash -c
Replace the "2" following "-P" with how many CPUs you have. Under POSIX,
the best way to do this is with the "getconf" GNU tool.
... | xargs -0 -n1 -P`getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN` bash -c
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