Run commands parallelly

xargs-parallel.sh

#!/bin/bash
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/19618159
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/51861820
#
# Example file contents:
# touch /tmp/a.txt
# touch /tmp/b.txt

if [ "$#" -eq 0 ];  then
  echo "$0 <file> [max-procs=0]"
  exit 1
fi

FILE=${1}
MAX_PROCS=${2:-0}
cat $FILE | while read line; do printf "%q\n" "$line"; done | xargs --max-procs=$MAX_PROCS -I CMD bash -c CMD