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/usr/bin/parallel

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From moreutils 0.70-r2 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running parallel --help (exit 1) · terse output. permalink

/usr/bin/parallel: invalid option -- '-'
parallel [OPTIONS] command -- arguments
	for each argument, run command with argument, in parallel
parallel [OPTIONS] -- commands
	run specified commands in parallel

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