How to run parallel commands with xargs?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The xargs command takes too long to process the list of files passed by the find command, regardless the number of CPUs available.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all releases)
  • Findutils

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