How to execute commands in parallel in Linux | Linux Today

How to execute commands in parallel in Linux

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Mar 11, 2020

In Linux, when we work from the command line, it is often very convenient to be able to execute several commands in a single line. For example if you want to download, decompress and open the resulting folder, you would execute a single command line as follows:

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