http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/fifo/popular/2010-04-02T00:14:38-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2010-04-02T00:14:38-07:00Kevin L. Sitzehttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173535/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577171-parallelize-your-shell-commands/

<p style="color: grey"> Bash recipe 577171 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173535/">Kevin L. Sitze</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/fifo/">fifo</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/multiprocessing/">multiprocessing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/parallel/">parallel</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>This script is used to processes a batch job of commands in parallel. The script dispatches new commands up to a user specified limit, each generated from a template provided on the command line using arguments taken from STDIN. The basic combining semantics are similar to "xargs -1", though support for multiple arguments and parallel processing of commands are provided.</p>