From c9db74bfd4f315424e202358f71f776b61acea46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Eichlersmith <31970302+tomeichlersmith@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 08:04:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add md5sum example to README

this includes a statement that `fd` will not interlace or garble the terminal output from its multiple threads
---
 README.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2c89497..8fa34e0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -206,6 +206,13 @@ fd -e jpg -x convert {} {.}.png
 Here, `{}` is a placeholder for the search result. `{.}` is the same, without the file extension.
 See below for more details on the placeholder syntax.
 
+The terminal output of commands run from parallel threads using `-x` will not be interlaced or garbled,
+so `fd -x` can be used to rudimentarily parallelize a task run over many files. 
+An example of this is calculating the checksum of each individual file within a directory.
+```
+fd -x md5sum
+```
+
 #### Placeholder syntax
 
 The `-x` and `-X` options take a *command template* as a series of arguments (instead of a single string).