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add md5sum example to README 

this includes a statement that `fd` will not interlace or garble the terminal output from its multiple threads
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Tom Eichlersmith 2022-08-30 08:04:35 -05:00 committed by David Peter
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@ -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. Here, `{}` is a placeholder for the search result. `{.}` is the same, without the file extension.
See below for more details on the placeholder syntax. 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 #### Placeholder syntax
The `-x` and `-X` options take a *command template* as a series of arguments (instead of a single string). The `-x` and `-X` options take a *command template* as a series of arguments (instead of a single string).