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Created February 1, 2019 20:15
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Extract a boatload of ZIP files (big ones downloaded from my "good riddance to Flickr") in parallel. Uses GNU "parallel".
#!/bin/bash
# extract all zip files in parallel
find . -name "*zip" | parallel --jobs 8 --progress unzip {} -d {/.}.out
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