<para><command>parallel</command> runs the specified command,
passing it a single one of the specified arguments. This is
- repeated for each argument. The default is to run all
- the commands at the same time.</para>
+ repeated for each argument. Jobs may be run in
+ parallel. The default is to run one job per CPU core.</para>
</refsect1>
than the specified limit.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-i</option></term>
<listitem>
<refsect1>
<title>EXAMPLE</title>
+ <para>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>parallel ufraw -o processed -- *.NEF</command>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>This runs one ufraw process per available CPU, until
+ all of the NEF files have been processed.
+ </para>
+
<para>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>parallel -j 3 ufraw -o processed -- *.NEF</command>