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xjobs reads job descriptions line by line and executes them in parallel. It
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limits the number of parallel executing jobs and starts new jobs when jobs
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finish. Therefore, it combines the arguments from every input line with the
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utility and arguments given on the command line. If no utility is given as
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an argument to xjobs, then the first argument on every job line will be used
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as utility. To execute utility xjobs searches the directories given in the
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PATH environment variable and uses the first file found in these directories.
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xjobs is most useful on multiprocessor machines when one needs to execute
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several time consuming commands that could possibly be run in parallel. With
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xjobs this can be achieved easily, and it is possible to limit the load of
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the machine to a useful value. It works similar to xargs, but starts several
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processes simultaneously and gives only one line of arguments to each utility
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call.
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