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Old 05-18-2018, 12:39 PM  
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Originally Posted by Darth Vader View Post
Parallel - build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel. Uh, oh...

BUT, for a shell scripting feature (somehow similar with xargs), its location in D series is a bit strange. I imagined that its place is in AP series, eventually...
It's written in Perl. Also, it's strange to keep fixating on which series a package belongs in, as if it's a dependency system or something.
 
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