Concurrently run every line in a bash script

[babadoctor]

I have a script that looks like this

 

wget x.jpg

wget y.jpg

wget z.webm

etc...

 

how do I run all of these lines at once in separate forks?

I thought of using the ampersand operator after every line, but...

[Sauron]

Just now, babadoctor said:

I thought of using the ampersand operator after every line, but...

But...?

[babadoctor]

2 minutes ago, Sauron said:

But...?

Is there a better way of doing it than this?

 

also running thousands of lines concurrently might crash my computer

[Sauron]

2 minutes ago, babadoctor said:

Is there a better way of doing it than this?

No. What's wrong with the ampersand operator that you feel the need to look for something else?

3 minutes ago, babadoctor said:

also running thousands of lines concurrently might crash my computer

Not really, no. Plus wget will be bottlenecked by your connection long before it overwhelms your cpu. If you don't want messy output you can redirect each command's output to /dev/null:

wget x.png > /dev/null 2>&1 &