nq
Unix command line queue utility (by leahneukirchen)
redo-c
An implementation of the redo build system in portable C with zero dependencies (by leahneukirchen)
| nq | redo-c | |
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| 18 | 1 | |
| 2,778 | 102 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.5 | 2.4 | |
| about 2 months ago | 7 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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nq
Posts with mentions or reviews of nq.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-18.
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Sharing resources by queuing jobs
If you want something quick and janky, I suggest nq. It's stupidly simple and lightweight; it just requires that everyone is running as the same user. And only lets exactly one job of any kind run in a given queue. There's basically zero configuration; just nq , and it'll either start running , or will wait its turn.
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Looking for recommendations on my ssh tmux &| tee workflow
For your ad-hoc uses, I would introduce nq. It's an extremely lightweight queuing system, which gives you two things with minimal overhead:
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Run script in background conditionally and killing background process it started
I'm already aware of alternatives which I will consider (at, nq, snooze, but I still want an accurate lightweight CLI stopwatch/timer app and the script otherwise works well--this is more of an exercise on understanding background processes and could be handy in other scripts. Or if the attempt is considdered hacky and ill-advised, I'm curious of an alternative implementation. I just feel nothing is more simple than a very lightweight C-based timer app that exits 0 after specified time has elapsed and don't want to run a cron job or even a while sleep 1 loop for a reminder (sleep isn't even a builtin...).
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Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
Interesting project. Unfortunate that its name conflicts with one of nq’s executables (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/nq), but I’m not sure anything can be done about it.
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Tool to queue tasks and add/remove them?
nq
- Nq – A simple Unix job queue system
redo-c
Posts with mentions or reviews of redo-c.
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Nq – a simple Unix job queue system
I'll note that nq's author also has a redo implementation¹. I've wondered a few times why their other projects(nq/mblaze/etc) don't use redo, but never actually asked.
¹ https://github.com/leahneukirchen/redo-c
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nq and redo-c you can also consider the following projects:
pueue - :stars: Manage your shell commands.
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
fq - jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats
walk - A fast, general purpose, graph based build and task execution utility.
HexFiend - A fast and clever hex editor for macOS
notes - notes on the tools in my Unix/Linux toolbox, dotfiles, etc
json-toolkit - "the best opensource converter I've found across the Internet" -- dene14
timestamp - Prefix each line with a timestamp
jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]
fq - F@#$*&%Q (Message queue that is fast, brokered, in C and gets out of your way)