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sysutils/vxargs,
Runs parallel jobs with visualization and redirection
Branch: pkgsrc-2012Q4,
Version: 0.3.3nb2,
Package name: vxargs-0.3.3nb2,
Maintainer: pkgsrc-usersvxargs is an utility inspired in xargs and pssh. It provides a parallel
versions of any arbitrary command, including ssh, rsync, scp, wget or
curl, just to mention a few.
It is specially useful to control a large set of machines in a wide-area
network. For example, it can be used on PlanetLab to control hundreds of
machines spread around the world.
Its main features are:
* Parallelism: Runs many jobs at the same time.
* Flexibility: Runs arbitrary commands with arbitrary options.
* Visualization: Monitors the total/per job progress in a curses-based UI.
* Redirection: The standard and error outputs of each individual job are
redirected to local files for further analysis.
Required to run:[
devel/py-curses]
Master sites:
SHA1: b86425482eac69b72372adb60df49178a69f6151
RMD160: 318fa040b11368a86a0e298169eaf62e3cf1914b
Filesize: 17.262 KB
Version history: (Expand)
- (2013-01-06) Package added to pkgsrc.se, version vxargs-0.3.3nb2 (created)