#!/usr/bin/perl

use Getopt::Std;
my %opt = (n => 1);
getopts('r:n:v', \%opt) or usage();

my $cmd = shift;
@ARGV = shuffle(@ARGV) if $opt{r};

my %pid;
while (@ARGV) {
  if (keys(%pid) < $opt{n}) {
    $pid{spawn($cmd, split /\s+/, shift @ARGV)} = 1;
  } else {
    delete $pid{wait()};
  }
}

1 while wait() >= 0;

sub spawn {
  my $pid = fork;
  die "fork: $!" unless defined $pid;
  return $pid if $pid;
  warn "@_\n" if $opt{v};
  exec @_;
  die "exec: $!";
}

sub usage {
  print STDERR "Usage: $0 [-n N] [-r] [-v] command arg1 arg2...
Run command arg1, command arg2, etc., concurrently.
Run no more than N processes simultaneously (default 1)
    -r: run commands in random order instead of specified order (unimpl.)
    -v: verbose mode
";
  exit 1;
}