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Re:Nq – A simple Unix job queue system by gmfawcett on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:34PM (#25922333)
Use a Makefile? e.g., GNU make can perform parallel execution.
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Re:Nq – A simple Unix job queue system by butt_hugger on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @07:25PM (#25922712) 

    $ 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.
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Re:Nq – A simple Unix job queue system by enriquto on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:26AM (#25925310)
you can use semicolon instead of \n\t for a neater file
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