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Cosmin Stejerean
Personal blog · offbytwo.comprogrammingsystems
Cosmin Stejerean's personal blog at offbytwo.com covers programming and systems. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Things you (probably) didn't know about xargs”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on using Unix as an IDE, a post about working with Unix tools and pipes. The one comment here explains how pipeline stages run as separate processes. It does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Things you (probably) didn't know about xargs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-26
What Hacker News says?
> Although I'm unfamiliar with using pipes to provide parallel processing, could you elaborate? If you can pass to another thread I will be kicking myself for missing that. You didn't miss it, each stage in the pipeline runs in it's own process so you're already using it. With say "grep -r foo ./ | do-something | do-omething-else" the second and third stages will be operating on the data from grep while grep is stil…
Comment linking /2011/06/26/things-you-didnt-know-about-xargs.html
on “Using Unix as an IDE (2012)”Submitted Things you (probably) didn't know about xargs as a story · 181 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things you (probably) didn’t know about xargs as a story · 2 points
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