Simple tutorial to install & use GNU Parallel
How to install GNU Parallel on Centos / RHEL servers.

You are here because you know the power of GNU parallel.. here are simple steps to install & use it.
Download Latest version of GNU Parallel
$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/parallel-latest.tar.bz2
Unzip it, it creates a new folder parallel-yyyymmdd
$ sudo tar xjf parallel-latest.tar.bz2
Change to new folder
$ cd parallel-yyyymmdd
Build the software in your machine
$ sudo ./configure && make
Install it
$ sudo make install
Switch to home directory
$ cd
How to Test Parallel ?
$ parallel
Press Ctrl D or Ctrl C to exit the parallel.
Use Case
The common use case I have is to bzip a large file using Parallels. Files with 40 millions rows (8 GB) are compressed to 400MB bz2 files.
$ cat largefile.csv | /usr/local/bin/parallel — pipe -k bzip2 — best > largefile.bz2