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Could you please add some usage examples or elaborate on when this tool would be useful? For example, > building several targets of a Makefile As opposed to `
by CyberShadow 11y ago
Could you please add some usage examples or elaborate on when this tool would be useful? For example,
> building several targets of a Makefile
As opposed to `make && sudo make install` ?
> downloading multiple files one at a time
As opposed to `(wget url1 &) ; (wget url2 &)` ?
> or simply as a glorified `nohup`
As opposed to `nohup` ?
- PeterWhittaker 11y agoThank you for making the comment I came to make! The shells have had queueing for, well, a very, very long time....
- cozzyd 11y agoI imagine it's useful if you don't know all the commands you want to queue at the beginning. For example: nq ./my_awesome_analysis /data/complicated_file_with_long_name.dat # um... what's the next file? ls /data nq ./my_awesome_analysis /data/even_more_complicated_path.dat man rsync nq rsync -avh --progress out* somewhere_else.net:
- jessaustin 11y agoYou don't need nq for that. Just kick off ./my_lame_analysis in the background whenever you want.
- cozzyd 11y agoYes but then they will execute at the same time instead of sequentially.
- shanemhansen 11y agoHow about: ./my_awesome_analysis /data/complicated_file_with_long_name.dat & # do some stuf wait ./my_awesome_analysis /data/even_more_complicated_path.dat
- e40 11y agoIt's still not equivalent, and it's more cumbersome.