From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Parallel processing
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 20:23:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkC5zgf9TJPmZ/6n@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1E0E1226-E3E8-40AD-87CD-93A602B1B08B@easesoftware.com>
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:34:07PM -0500, Perry Smith wrote:
> I need to do about 20 commands. 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 = 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 ^_^ ^_^
--
Dominik Vogt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-27 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-25 4:34 Perry Smith
2022-03-25 18:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-26 18:10 ` Philippe Troin
2022-03-26 22:19 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-27 17:32 ` Philippe Troin
2022-03-27 17:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-27 19:23 ` Dominik Vogt [this message]
2022-03-28 13:26 ` Perry Smith
2022-03-28 13:31 ` Perry Smith
2022-03-26 4:34 jdh
2022-03-27 18:37 jdh
2022-03-27 19:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-27 19:24 ` Ray Andrews
2022-03-28 13:47 ` Perry Smith
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