parallel/doc/haikus

Quote of the month:

  IMHO, SQLite and GNU Parallel are among the world's great software.
    -- singe@reddit

  Yeah, GNU parallel is a beast when used accordingly.
    -- @lsde@twitter

  GNU Parallel is awesome
    -- Gaurav Jain @gauravjain49@twitter
  
  [L]earning about parallel was amazing for me, it gives us many beautiful solutions.
     -- SergioAraujo@stackoverflow
  
  With multicore systems everywhere GNU Parallel is a must have tool.
    -- Neil H. Watson @neil_h_watson@twitter
  
  My new favourite command line tool is gnu parallel. After knowing it for a while I just recently came back to it for a refactor of a script and now I've changed like 4 different huge scripts into tiny parallel scripts that do their job literally 3 to 10 times faster and just [mind blown]
    -- Izzy @angry_izzy@twitter
  
  I love so much @GnuParallel to parallelize my SQL requests on @PostgreSQL
    -- @rmaziere_85 Romain
  
  Parallel is the BEST command.
    -- Nick @NickInfoSec@twitter
  
  GNU parallel really changed how I do a lot of data processing stuff
    -- Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix@twitter
  
  Parallel is a life send, what an awesome piece of software.
    -- Blaze9@reddit.com
  
  It's really powerful for smallish data processing scripts
    -- João Veiga @jcsvveiga@twitter
  
  It's the MapReduce of our generation!
    -- Mathias Meyer @roidrage@twitter
  
  GNU parallel is a seriously powerful flexible and tool.
    -- Greg Hurrell @wincent@twitter

  [socat is] top3 on my "crazy and powerful" list (the other two being
  gnu parallel and emacs).
    -- Peter Kjellström @nsccap@twitter


  GNU/Parallel umm... tempting.
    -- k-leb k @dcatdemon@twitter

  Ain't that a dirty hack ;-)
    -- ./hans

  Not sure if it counts as an "alt" tool but GNU parallel really took my shell scripting game to the next level.
    -- @alinajaf@twitter


=== Used ===
  It is, beyond absolutely any doubt whatsoever, the single most
  important tool I use in making me a productive bioinformatician.
    -- A-N-Other@reddit.com
  
It is SUPER easy to speed up jobs from the command line w/ GNU parallel.
  -- B3n @B3njaminHimes@twitter

I want to make a shout-out for @GnuParallel, it's a work of beauty and power
  -- Cristian Consonni @CristianCantoro

Amazingly useful script!
  -- unxusr@reddit.com

Y'all need some GNU parallel in your lives
-- ChaKu @ChaiLovesChai@twitter


There are so many things to love about GNU parallel. You could honestly teach a whole parallel computing course with it and never have to leave it for a real language.
-- Aubrey Bailey @DNAvinci@twitter


With GNU Parallel you sure can!
I like getting things done

--Kyle Lady @kylelady@twitter

Ok! GNU Parallel is one of the best things out there. Almost as good as vanilla ice cream.
    -- @coffe@mastodon.art

HOLY STUFF I LOVE GNU PARALLEL
  -- Nick (but spookier) @NickInfoSec@twitter


What this country needs is a president with a strong understanding of GNU Parallel, Awk, Sed, Grep, and Diff
-- Gregg Housh @GreggHoush

I know I'm late to the party but GNU Parallel is truly amazing!
-- Sam Diaz-Munoz @sociovirology

GNU parallel is a thing of magic.
-- Josh Meyer @joshmeyerphd@twitter 

I've been using GNU Parallel very much and effectively lately.
Such an easy way to get huge speed-ups with my simple bash/Perl/Python
programs -- parallelize them!
-- Ken Youens-Clark @kycl4rk@twitter

Alias and vars
export them more easily
With env_parallel
-- Ole Tange

You know what?
GNU Parallel is cool.
Concurrency, but in the Unix-philosophy style,
without the Enterprise wankeriness.
-- NickM‏ bokkiedog@twitter

An ode to GNU parallel
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  -- Adam Stuckert PoisonEcology@twitter

--limit can
limit jobs dynamic'ly
given a command
  --ole-tange

--line-buffer
touches files on disk no more
faster than before
  -- Ole Tange

Always test your script
using a --dry-run
or --dr
  -- Ole Tange 

--rpl
used to be a static string
Now it can take args
  --ole-tange

--tee will pipe
all data to all the jobs
used with --pipe
  --ole-tange

Speed is good for you
Multi speed is better still
Use GNU Parallel
  -- Ole Tange
  
Want to monitor
many job outputs at once:
--tmuxpane
  --ole-tange

Pipes are fast and good.
Use them in your programs, too.
Use GNU Parallel
  -- Ole Tange

Programs using net
only spare capacity
niceload dash dash net
  -- Ole Tange

xapply too strict?
:::+
is just made for you
  -- Ole Tange

Save environment
Functions, vars and other stuff
Try env_parallel
  -- Ole Tange

Many jobs to sort.
SQL would help a lot.
Dash dash sql
  -- Ole Tange

Dash dash pipe too slow?
Dash dash pipepart is your friend.
Use GNU Parallel
  -- Ole Tange

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Use GNU Parallel
  -- Malcolm Cook

UNIX pipe too tight?
You should then learn dash dash pipe.
Use GNU Parallel
  -- Ole Tange

In parallel land
everything is quick and fast
Use GNU Parallel.
  -- Ole Tange

Jobs in parallel
faster run than single jobs
Use GNU Parallel.
  -- Ole Tange

Multi core I see.
Doing nothing. I say no!
Use GNU Parallel.
  -- Ole Tange

Programs very slow.
Multiple can run at once.
Use GNU Parallel.
  -- Ole Tange

Many jobs to run.
Idle cores is not your thing.
Use GNU Parallel.
  -- Ole Tange

SSH set up?
Instant cluster needed now?
Use GNU Parallel.
  -- Ole Tange

xargs' space and quote
headache causing behaviour.
Use GNU Parallel
  -- Ole Tange

If not enough time:
Run jobs using Parallel.
Keeps CPUs warm.
  -- Ole Tange

Hadoop bit too much?
Want a simpler syntax now?
Use GNU Parallel.
  -- Ole Tange

Shellshock pain hits us.
Dash dash env is affected.
Upgrade Parallel.
  -- Ole Tange

  goodbye to xargs
  quoting is still a black art
  welcome parallel
    -- Malcolm Cook

bash for loops vanquished 
jobs fan out over network 
collated results!
    -- Malcolm Cook

code fork headache blues? 
option P is your new friend 
`man parallel` now! 
-- Malcolm Cook

Are you tired of 
inflexible replacements? 
Use Perl expressions. 
-- Ole Tange