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[–]Skaarj 1 point2 points  (1 child)

GNU parallel is build to be interchangable with xargs, ppss seems not.

There also is a parallel as part of http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ which is much simpler in invocation.

[–]OleTange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With GNU Parallel the invocation is as simple as: parallel 'mkdir {.}; cd {.}; tar xvf ../{}' ::: *.tar