Increasing / decreasing number of xargs parallel processes (at run time!)
xargs makes it very easy to quickly run a set of similar processes in parallel – but did you know when you’re half-way through a...
Category: Shell Scripting
The unix/linux shells provide the primary command-line interpreter used for interactive terminals and various system administration automation tasks.
stdbuf – Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams
While piping together commands that only output intermittently we run into the pipe buffers created by the pipe() system call (also see overview of pipes...
single quote characters in a single-quoted string in shells
A very quick and simple comment on building single-quoted strings in shell scripts which include single quotes. Note that it’s not possible to include a...