List of Command-Line Tools - Data Science at the Command Line - page 175

$ sudo apt-get install coreutils
$ man mv
parallel
Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel. GNU Parallel
(version 20140622) by Ole Tange (2014). http://www.gnu.org/so ​ ware/parallel .
$ # See website for installation instructions
$ man parallel
$ seq 3 | parallel echo Processing file {} .csv
Processing file 1.csv
Processing file 2.csv
Processing file 3.csv
paste
Merge lines of files. Paste (version 8.21) by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie
(2012). http://www.gnu.org/so ​ ware/coreutils .
$ sudo apt-get install coreutils
$ man paste
pbc
Run bc with parallel . First column of input CSV is mapped to {1} , second to {2} ,
and so forth. Pbc by Jeroen H.M. Janssens (2014). https://github.com/jeroenjanssens/
data-science-at-the-command-line .
$ git clone https://github.com/jeroenjanssens/data-science-at-the-command-
line.git
$ seq 5 | pbc '{1}^2'
1
4
9
16
25
pip
Install and manage Python packages. Pip (version 1.5.4) by PyPA (2014). https://
pip.pypa.io .
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ man pip