in reply to Using perl to speed up a series of bash commands by transforming them into a single command that will run everything in parallel.

Just let me note that in bash, & is a command separator just like ; is, so you can simply write 

cmd1  & cmd2 &

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instead of 
( (cmd1 ) &); ( (c cmd2 ) &);

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