JEjeffbee·Jul 20, 2026
Parallel is ok but rush is nicer and much faster.
https://github.com/shenwei356/rush
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A cross-platform command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel
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8 sourcescouldn't this just be a single-line shell script using rush and ffmpeg?
https://github.com/shenwei356/rush
In Video-compress: Compress video by 90% without losing much quality, similar to wThere's also rush which is pretty nice (https://github.com/shenwei356/rush)
In Forkrun: Runs multiple inputs through a command in parallel using bash coprocsRush is an alternative to gnu parallel that is MIT licensed:
https://GitHub.com/shenwei356/rush
As you mention xargs has parallel capabilities and gargs is Apache licensed software that fixes some of xargs shortcomings:
https://GitHub.com/brentp/gargs
No reason to use gnu parallel.
In GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?I much prefer rush over parallel. Namely that everything is executed as a bash shell.
https://github.com/shenwei356/rush
In GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?If anyone needs a pretty basic alternative with Windows support, there's Rush:
https://github.com/shenwei356/rush
I use it pretty extensively with ffmpeg, imagemagick and the like.
I'd been using the mmstick/parallel for a while, but it moved to RedoxOS repos and then stopped being updated, while still having some issues not ironed out.
https://github.com/shenwei356/rush
In Design of GNU Parallel (2015)Rush – a cross-platform command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel
2 points · Open discussionI'm not writing rust yet, but I'm using a couple of tools written in rust, and based on my experience with it, when I need a utility I seek out one that's written in rust.
I'm using https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep which is rg, like ack or ag (TheSilverSearcher). I've been using it for a few months, and I like it just a little bit more than ag, because I find its help and interface a bit easier to use. Like ag, it's incredibly fast.
Just this week I started using https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec to run rsync to sync from my mac to my vagrant box, because I was switching from using neovim on vagrant to using Visual Studio Code. It works great and has a very nice command-line UI.
Another tool that's written in go that I thought maybe was written in rust that's handy is https://github.com/shenwei356/rush which runs multiple comman
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ds in parallel, like xargs. I'm using it to transfer images between folders on s3 using aws-cli.
Based on this, and Servo, which is unstoppable with its Doge logo, I think Rust is going to be a very widely used language. https://github.com/servo
Edit: I remember part of why I liked rg more than ag - I got to use cargo rather than go, which is a much more intuitive and less opinionated way of downloading libraries than using the go cli. go is coming around though: https://blog.golang.org/modules2019