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diff --git a/system/parallel/README b/system/parallel/README index 27f6ebab56..a0b3eedf74 100644 --- a/system/parallel/README +++ b/system/parallel/README @@ -1 +1,7 @@ -Build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel. +GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one +or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script +that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical +input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of +URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads +from a pipe. GNU parallel can then split the input and pipe it into +commands in parallel. |