szip all files in a directory recursively? about rust-snappy HOT 4 CLOSED

OK, I've tried xargs -P and it seems to work much more gracefully than other common parallelization tools. I'm OK with closing this issue, and thank you for your help! :-)

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gzip supports this flag, so I'd be in favor of adding it.

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I will note thought, that I wonder why you want this. find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -P8 szip should work just fine and do it in parallel.

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Oh, thank you! I'd forgotten about the -P flag to xargs. I always reach for one of the versions of parallel, and I always conclude, "No, not worth sorting out all the issues."

I'll try this on our next cluster job and see how it goes. If it works well, we should just close this issue.

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