If you have GNU Parallel http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ installed you can do this:

seq 5 | parallel -N0 executable.sh parameters_to_executable


You can install GNU Parallel simply by:

wget http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/plain/src/parallel
chmod 755 parallel
cp parallel sem


Watch the intro videos for GNU Parallel to learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1

Quick and dirty way to run a process more than once
I want to reverse the direction of marquee in the TextView. By default, the text moves from Right to Left, I want it to move from Left to Right. How can I do this?
