shenwei356/rush

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

rush is a cross-platform command-line tool written in Go for executing jobs in parallel, similar to GNU parallel. It supports custom variables, resuming multi-line commands, timeouts, retries, and ordered output, making it well suited for parallelizing complex workflows such as bioinformatics pipelines.

Use cases

• run shell commands in parallel from a list of inputs
• parallelize bioinformatics pipelines on the command line
• retry failed jobs and resume interrupted multi-line commands
• keep parallel command output in input order
• apply timeouts to long-running parallel jobs
• use GNU parallel-style workflows on Windows natively

When to choose

• you need a fast, single-binary parallel job runner on Linux, macOS, or Windows
• you want GNU parallel-like features such as keep-order, timeout, retry, and resume with simpler syntax
• you parallelize multi-line shell workflows, e.g. in bioinformatics

When to avoid

• you need distributed execution across multiple machines rather than a single host
• you depend on the full advanced feature set of GNU parallel
• you need a GUI or workflow engine with dependency graphs rather than a CLI utility

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli concurrency developer-tools workflow-automation developer-tools bioinformatics windows cli cross-platform parallel-execution gnu-parallel-alternative job-runner shell-pipelines batch-processing command-line automation linux macos

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