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		gmfawcett on Jan 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nq – A simple Unix job queue system Use a Makefile? e.g., GNU make can perform parallel execution.

butt_hugger on Jan 27, 2021 [–]

    $ make jq -j2 -f - <<EOF
    file1:
            wget file1
    file2:
            wget file2
    jq: file1 file2
            jq file1 file2
    EOF

Could probably make some syntactic sugar for this.

enriquto on Jan 27, 2021 | [–]

you can use semicolon instead of \n\t for a neater file

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