1 vxargs is an utility inspired in xargs and pssh. It provides a parallel
2 versions of any arbitrary command, including ssh, rsync, scp, wget or
3 curl, just to mention a few.
5 It is specially useful to control a large set of machines in a wide-area
6 network. For example, it can be used on PlanetLab to control hundreds of
7 machines spread around the world.
10 * Parallelism: Runs many jobs at the same time.
11 * Flexibility: Runs arbitrary commands with arbitrary options.
12 * Visualization: Monitors the total/per job progress in a curses-based UI.
13 * Redirection: The standard and error outputs of each individual job are
14 redirected to local files for further analysis.