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# do it once
seq 1 | parallel -n0 "curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://httpbin.org/post -X POST -d '{\"url\":\"http://google.com/\"}'"

# do it twice
seq 2 | parallel -n0 "curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://httpbin.org/post -X POST -d '{\"url\":\"http://google.com/\"}'"

# do it 4 times, but at 2 a time
seq 4 | parallel -n0 -j2 "curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://httpbin.org/post -X POST -d '{\"url\":\"http://google.com/\"}'"

# you can also put all your commands into a file

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PDF Testing Gist

These two files, pdf_linkchecker.py and pdf_fontchecker.py are code examples to go along with a blog article: http://reachtim.com/articles/PDF-Testing.html

See the article for details on how to test your PDFs for broken internal and external links and for unembedded fonts.

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#!/usr/bin/perl

####### README ##################################################################{{{
#
# dmenuLauncher is a program launcher that saves number of calls and opional the
# arguments for each program.
# 
# It uses dmenu to display the possible programs and select one.
# 
# dmenuLauncher is designed to be small and fast so that even on old systems