I need a quick GNU Parallel substitute on Windows, and here is a simple parallel runner that is implemented in C# .NET 4.6.
Github Source: https://github.com/DoctorLai/SimpleRunner
Features of Simple Parallel Runner
- Run multiple tasks at command line
- Tasks synchronization
- Timeout
- Jobs can be defined in a job list file.
Examples
it is possible to specify alternative e.g. using .js=wscript.exe and/or *.vbs=wscript.exe". For example,
SimpleRunner job1.vbs job2.vbs job3.vbs job4.js
Process Starts: cscript.exe /Nologo job1.vbs
Process Starts: cscript.exe /Nologo job4.js
Process Starts: cscript.exe /Nologo job2.vbs
Process Starts: cscript.exe /Nologo job3.vbs
1
Process Stops: cscript.exe /Nologo job1.vbs
2
Process Stops: cscript.exe /Nologo job2.vbs
4
Process Stops: cscript.exe /Nologo job4.js
3
Process Stops: cscript.exe /Nologo job3.vbs
If you specify wscript.exe to run, then all the output will not be redirected to the console. Instead, message dialogs will be pop-up, if you use WScript.Echo.
SimpleRunner job1.vbs job2.vbs job3.vbs job4.js .js=wscript.exe .vbs=wscript.exe
Process Starts: wscript.exe /Nologo job1.vbs
Process Starts: wscript.exe /Nologo job2.vbs
Process Starts: wscript.exe /Nologo job4.js
Process Starts: wscript.exe /Nologo job3.vbs
Process Stops: wscript.exe /Nologo job2.vbs
Process Stops: wscript.exe /Nologo job4.js
Process Stops: wscript.exe /Nologo job1.vbs
Process Stops: wscript.exe /Nologo job3.vbs
Please note that the 32-bit scripting engines aree located at e.g. C:\Windows\SysWOW64 while the 64-bit variants are located at C:\Windows\System32.
Specify the Runner Paths and Parameters
As you can see in the above example, the runners can be specified using the .ext=path format where ext is the job file extension. Also you can specify the parameters to pass for that runner, for example:
SimpleRunner .php=php.exe -php=/para1 -php=/para2 a.php b.php
In this case, two processes will be invoked in parallel.
php.exe /para1 /para2 a.php
php.exe /para1 /para2 b.php
.vbs and .js are pre-configured with /Nologo parameter.
Specify the timeout for processes
Each parallel process will run until it terminates, however, you could set a timeout limit for all processes.
SimpleRunner job1.vbs job2.vbs job3.vbs job4.js timeout=1
Process Starts: cscript.exe /NoLogo job1.vbs
Process Starts: cscript.exe /NoLogo job4.js
Process Starts: cscript.exe /NoLogo job2.vbs
Process Starts: cscript.exe /NoLogo job3.vbs
Four independent processes are killed and terminated because the timeout is set to 1ms.
Specify a job list
You could put each line a job task in a job list file, for example,
SimpleRunner jobs=list1.txt jobs=list2.txt
where list1.txt and list2.txt are two plain text files that contain each line a job.
Source Code
Github Source: https://github.com/DoctorLai/SimpleRunner
Screenshot
Proof of work
doctorlai is my github ID and you can view my profile https://github.com/DoctorLai which has my steemit URL page.
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