Latest revision as of 16:29, 28 May 2011

GNU Parallel is a handy program to replace loops and perform the loop tasks in parallel. It can also be thought of as a replacement for xargs.

Installation

Parallel can be easily installed on Mac OS X by downloading and unzipping the source file from the above web site.

Configure with the following line:

./configure --prefix=/path/to/parallel

And run configure, make, and make install.

Finally, add it to your path and to your manpath by adding the following to your .profile or .bash_profile:

# parallel
export PATH="/path/to/parallel/bin:${PATH}"
export MANPATH="/path/to/parallel/share/man:${MANPATH}"

Test it out by typing "which parallel" and "man parallel", both should work.

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 Download source code here: http://mac.freshmeat.net/projects/parallel/
+=Installation=
+==Mac OS X==
+Parallel can be easily installed on Mac OS X by downloading and unzipping the source file from the above web site.
+Configure with the following line:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+./configure --prefix=/path/to/parallel
+</syntaxhighlight>
+And run configure, make, and make install.
+Finally, add it to your path and to your manpath by adding the following to your .profile or .bash_profile:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+# parallel
+export PATH="/path/to/parallel/bin:${PATH}"
+export MANPATH="/path/to/parallel/share/man:${MANPATH}"
+</syntaxhighlight>
+Test it out by typing "which parallel" and "man parallel", both should work.
+{{Programs}}
+{{Unix Programs}}