Overlooked Tools: task-spooler

Sometimes sophisticated job queue and cluster systems are overkill on office or individual PCs, especially for long lists of batch processing jobs that use comparatively few resources.

Use task-spooler to queue commands on Linux and control the number of simultaneous jobs for an easy way to parallelize a list of batch jobs! This tool is a great complement to some other command line workhorses like at and batch.

Task-spooler is not usually installed by default on Linux systems. It can be built by scratch after getting the source from https://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/ or on Ubuntu (maybe other Debian based OS’s) you can use apt: