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Taskspooler provides similar service. Install and submit tasks from command-line. You can choose how many tasks run in parallel.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/tsp.1.html

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Also Pueue (https://github.com/Nukesor/pueue)

Damn that's a precious tool. Thank you for showing it to me!

Always happy to see my stuff getting recommended :D

I second the recommendation for task spooler, which seems to cover similar ground to nq. It's a really nice way to queue simple long-running tasks without having to write code or set up infrastructure.

I wrote an answer on Super User [0] on how to use this neat tool. There are use cases where it really comes in handy. For example when copying a lot of files around to various folders that sits on the same disk so that you can assume that it won't run efficiently in parallel.

When I think of it even lftp has queue and jobs commands. But "task spooler" is the generic tool you can use for more general use cases than file copying.

0. https://superuser.com/questions/220364/how-to-run-commands-a...

Excellent writeup, thank you!

I have used tsp to send hundres of millions of euros for a company. great tool

Wish it has chaining of commands - if xx fails then do yyy

Heh, I use ts(1) on a fairly regular basis. It is a very nice tool, and it even supports multiple job queues via environment variables.

This. Taskspooler is a powerful but simple tool that seems to be fairly unknown.

I knew about it, but years go by and I can't honestly say that I ever needed it.

Great little tool. Sends error on fails.. Just wish it had chaining of commands.

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