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