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6 parcat - cat files or fifos in parallel
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9 parcat [--rm] [-#] file(s) [-#] file(s)
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12 GNU parcat reads files or fifos in parallel. It writes full lines so
13 there will be no problem with mixed-half-lines which you risk if you
14 use:
15 (cat file1 & cat file2 &) | ...
17 Arguments can be given on the command line or passed in on stdin
19 (standard input).
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22 -# Arguments following this will be sent to the file descriptor
23 #. E.g.
24 parcat -1 stdout1 stdout2 -2 stderr1 stderr2
26 will send stdout1 and stdout2 to stdout (standard output =
28 file descriptor 1), and send stderr1 and stderr2 to stderr
29 (standard error = file descriptor 2).
30 --rm Remove files after opening. As soon as the files are opened,
32 unlink the files.
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35 Simple line buffered output
36 GNU parallel saves output to tempfiles. If the amount of data is bigger
37 than the free disk space, then you can use this technique to do line
38 buffering without saving to disk:
39 mkfifo slot-{1..5}
41 seq 10000000 | parallel -j5 --round --pipe 'cat > slot-{%}' &
42 parcat slot-{1..5} | wc
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45 GNU parcat is part of GNU parallel. Report bugs to
46 <bug-parallel@gnu.org>.
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122 GNU parcat uses Perl.
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125 cat(1), parallel(1)
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