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File Name of Bash Script

  1. Do NOT get into this messy shit if you can avoid it! Use Python script instead if you can.

  2. If you want to reliably get the name of a Bash script, it is recommended that you run the Bash script as an executable script instead of source it in.

Parallel Computing in Bash

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. & and wait

  2. parallel

  3. xargs

parallel is a cool bash command which makes parallel computing easy in Bash. It is a parallel version replacement of xargs.