Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

[Chet Ramey]

> this is actually more disturbing.
> 
> ls | parallel mv {} destdir
> 
> find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} -P <NumJobs> /bin/mv {} <destdir>

If we're really going to pick nits here, those two aren't really identical.

You'd probably want something like

find . -depth 1 \! -name '.*' -print0

to start.

Chet

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