From 87bb3ae3ea452f7abba694be1840ee177d03c085 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:01:25 -0400
Subject: update

---
 parallel.docbook | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'parallel.docbook')

diff --git a/parallel.docbook b/parallel.docbook
index fccdfd8..9d5714c 100644
--- a/parallel.docbook
+++ b/parallel.docbook
@@ -93,12 +93,15 @@ Written by Joey Hess
 		
 	<para>
 	<cmdsynopsis>
-		<command>parallel ufraw -o processed -- *.NEF</command>
+		<command>parallel sh -c "echo hi; sleep 2; echo bye" -- 1 2 3</command>
 	</cmdsynopsis>
 	</para>
 
-	<para>This runs one ufraw process per available CPU, until
-	all of the NEF files have been processed.
+	<para>This runs three subshells that each print a message, delay,
+		and print another message. If yours system has multiple
+		CPUs, parallel will run some of the jobs in parallel,
+		which should be clear from the order the messages are
+		output.
 	</para>
 		
 	<para>
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