If you're using GNU Parallel for simple, non-parallel command line tasks and scripting, I've written a tool which I find to be much more intuitive: https://git

If you're using GNU Parallel for simple, non-parallel command line tasks and scripting, I've written a tool which I find to be much more intuitive: https://github.com/Miserlou/Loop https://github.com/Miserlou/Loop The author of GNU Parallel wrote a pretty detailed comparison, which you can find in the linked README.