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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. >>=20 >=20 >> 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.) >=20 > Are you talking about GNU Make? What is the problem? >=20 > $ 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 >=20 I=E2=80=99m inside a BSD =E2=80=9Cjail=E2=80=9D. They have their own = make (I believe). Let me try the syntax and see if I can get it to = work. The next challenge will be to get this syntax to work from within = a list so I can say: ${LIST_OF_TARGETS} : Where an item in the list can have spaces.