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sigil on Nov 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNU Parallel Tutorial

You can use xargs for parallel remote execution too. In the simplest case:

    list-hosts |
    xargs \
    -P8 \
    -n1 \
    -I% \
    ssh % some-command

bandrami on Nov 13, 2016 [–]

Sure, and you can also run an ssh command inside backticks too. There's something of a Turing tar pit here.

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