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Each will take several hours to perhaps= days. I???d like to start some fixed number like 4 jobs that are running= . The others are waiting for one of the others to get finished. > > I tried creating a Makefile and use the -j option in make but my > targets have spaces in them and make doesn???t like that. (This > is on a BSD system.) Are you talking about GNU Make? What is the problem? $ cat Makefile TARGETS =3D a\ b foo\ bar all: $(TARGETS) foo\ bar: touch "$@" a\ b: touch "$@" $ ls . Makefile $ make -j 2 $ ls . a b foo bar Makefile Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ =2D- Dominik Vogt