#!/bin/bash echo '### Test --number-of-cpus' parallel --number-of-cpus echo '### Test --number-of-cores' parallel --number-of-cores echo '### Test --use-cpus-instead-of-cores' (seq 1 4 | parallel --use-cpus-instead-of-cores -j100% sleep) && echo CPUs done & (seq 1 4 | parallel -j100% sleep) && echo cores done & echo 'Cores should complete first on machines with less than 4 physical CPUs' wait