From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2592 invoked from network); 12 Oct 1999 04:35:28 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Oct 1999 04:35:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 15103 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 1999 04:35:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2670 Received: (qmail 15090 invoked from network); 12 Oct 1999 04:35:11 -0000 X-Authentication-Warning: divine.city.tvnet.hu: szaka owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 06:38:39 +0200 (MEST) From: Szabolcs Szakacsits X-Sender: szaka@divine.city.tvnet.hu To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Running N jobs from M all the time Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I'm a new subscriber but using this lovely, powerful - well, as I experienced far the best - shell for years. I can't live without it - thank you for zsh! My question would be there is an easy way for $SUBJECT? It would be useful for SMP machines (e.g. running parallel exactly 4 graphic processing utilities on a 4-way Xeon for/out of 1000 images) or when a singlethreaded networking software can be split up into multiply parts (e.g. mirroring, rsyncing different hosts) on a high-bandwidth host thus a slow remote host or networking problem couldn't slow down/stop the whole process. I know this can be done with ps, grep, wait, etc but a bit painful and not elegant/modern I'd like to use a cleaner way. RTFM is welcomed but I've read the docs and searched the zsh archivum for similar question but couldn't find answer. Thanks, Szaka, who is disappointed because still none of the Linux distribution makers select a well configured zsh as the default shell.