[ale] parallel processing

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Try something like this:

for FILE in pattern_to_be_matched
do
cp ${FILE} place_to_copy_to &
done

I do this with gzip jobs at work (usualy 30+ files at a rip) in order to
take full advantage of the 4-processer Alpha we are running.

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, jeff hubbs wrote:

> Andy -
>
> You can execute each cp command with an ampersand ("&") at the end
> (that's sometimes called "amping off") but unless the files/dirs are
> really big, the cps will finish before you can type the next one - is
> that what you're talking about?
>
> - Jeff
>
> Zyman, Andy wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I just wonder :
> > Let's say in Oracle we have parallel SQL processing - I can specify that
> > certain SQL should be processed in parallel.
> > What about Unix? Let's say I have  a directory on Sun server with 10 files.
> > I want to cp them to the diff. one. I'm doing cp xxx yyy. Now how it will
> > processed and who I can see that it will be done in parallel?
> >
> > Thank You
> >  Andy
> >
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