Doing parallel processing in bash?

Question

I\'ve thousands of png files which I like to make smaller with pngcrush. I\'ve a simple find .. -exec job, but it\'s sequential. My machine has qui

Answer 1

You can use custom find/xargs solutions (see Bart Sas' answer), but when things become more complex you have -at least- two powerful options:

1. parallel (from package moreutils)
2. GNU parallel