Start reading this chapter in the man page: EXAMPLE: GNU Parallel as queue system/batch manager
You are not the first who (mis-)use Gnu Parallel as a queue manager. /hans 2014-12-14 12:01 GMT+01:00 xmoon 2000 <xmoon2...@googlemail.com>: > > Hi, > > Currently I read jobs from a file on my c drive that gets written to > by other scripts, and my master script runs each job found in > background with &. I want to use parallel instead of my own script. > > I would like parallel to monitor this file and run any jobs in it with > as many cores as are available, or wait until new jobs are appended to > the file. Running 24/7. > > What is the syntax for doing this? > > My jobFile looks like this: > > > /myApp prm1 parm2 parm2 > /myApp parm1 parm2 > /myApp parm1 parm2 parm3 parm4 > > I could do: > > tail -f jobFile | parallel > > Is this the best approach? > >
