Replace all files in parallel

find . -type f -print0 | parallel -q0 perl -i -pe 's/FOO BAR/FUBAR/g'

It works similar to xargs where each line found is send through the pipe and catch by parallel to be processed.

Also, sometimes you want to run commands with many arguments, for example, an ansible release

cat release
my-playbook1.yml -i my_inventory
my-playbook2.yml -i my_inventory

cat release | parallel --colsep ' ' ansible-playbook
# parallel execution happening here

If we don’t add the --colsep it will treat it as 1 argument which is not really desirable.