paargs(1)

💅 paargs(1) — the manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, welcome to the paargs(1) page — yes that's the manual name, yes it's giving "xargs but make it cluster" ✨

🌸 NAME

paargs — a wrapper for paexec that's literally similar to xargs 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS

paargs [OPTIONS] <command> <args>

🎀 DESCRIPTION

okay so paargs is a simple wrapper over paexec that simplifies use of paexec's capabilities. and like, the way you use paargs is actually very similar to xargs. no cap. 💅

paargs runs paexec with the following options enabled by default:

• -C — for specifying command as free arguments,
• -x — for being xargs-like,
• -l — 0-based task number is included to the output of paargs, this allows to reorder the sliced output,
• -e — for the same purposes as -l,
• -g — this flag allows analysis of command's exit status,
• -md= — disables task delimiter for -g mode enabled by default, as a result the whole line given on input is considered as a task.

like, that's the whole vibe. it's giving "one wrapper to rule them all" 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h — Display this help. (iconic, honestly)
• -V — Display version. 🏷️
• -P nodes — Same as -n in paexec.
• -t transport — Passed directly to paexec. 🚚
• -c command — Command with its arguments. By default, free arguments are used for setting command and its arguments.
• -I replstr — Execute command for each task, replacing one or more occurrences of replstr with the entire task. 🔁
• -X — Passed directly to paexec.
• -f — Flushes stdout after recieving an end-of-task line. (yes that's how it's spelled in the original, we stan anyway 💖)
• -0 — Passed directly to paexec.
• -Z timeout — Passed directly to paexec. ⏰
• -z — Passed directly to paexec.
• -m arg — Passed directly to paexec.
• -d — Turn on a debugging mode (for debugging purposes only). 🐛

lowkey important: -d is for debugging purposes only — don't be out here main-character-ing with debug mode in prod, bestie 😭

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💌 BUGS/FEEDBACK

Please send any comments, questions, bug reports etc. to me by e-mail or (even better) register them at sourceforge project home. Feature requests are also welcomed. 🫶 fr fr, they want your feedback.

🏠 HOME

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/paexec>

👀 SEE ALSO

paexec(1) — the whole reason this wrapper exists 💜

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and that's the page, bestie! this one's from the paargs(1) manual, dated 2024-06-07 — slay, go forth and parallelize responsibly 🌈⭐🎀