This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the Bash shell (version 4.3, 2 February 2014). This is Edition 4.3, last updated 2 February 2014, of The GNU Bash Reference Manual, for Bash, Version 4.3. Copyright (C) 1988-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". Created by GNU Texinfo 5.2, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ Previous: Coprocesses , Up: Shell Commands [ Contents ][ Index ] There are ways to run commands in parallel that are not built into Bash. GNU Parallel is a tool to do just ...