Re: how to build the parallel nature into the script?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 01:06:28 -0500
paralleluser <paralleluser@fastmail.net> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
> 
> Given a shell script, script.bash, it takes one argument, $1, which is a file
> name to process, like this: script.bash myfile.txt
> 
> To parallelize this I can do:
> parallel script.bash ::: *.txt
> 
> But what is the easiest way to build the parallel nature into the script so I
> can do: script.bash *.txt
> 

Why not write a wrapper script that does:


#!/bin/bash
parallel script.bash ::: "$@"


Regards,

        Shlomi

> and parallel does its magic behind the scenes?
> 
> Thanks!...
> 



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