[Mizza]

If you're using GNU Parallel for simple, non-parallel command line tasks and scripting, I've written a tool which I find to be much more intuitive:

https://github.com/Miserlou/Loop

The author of GNU Parallel wrote a pretty detailed comparison, which you can find in the linked README.

[isaachier]

Your tool looks nice, but it doesn't seem to parallelize the work in any way.

[isaachier]

Never mind, missed your point about not being parallel.