How do you download multiple files/videos, simultaneously, on a basic digitalocean droplet?

Let's say I create a basic digitalocean droplet/VPS, that runs Ubuntu

I start the console

I do apt install python and wget https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl and chmod 777 youtube-dl

There are some files that I want to download e.g. these two video files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo (the johnny depp one, about 11min long)

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY (a ricky gervais one)

I've got a file with the two videos

user@basicdroplettest1:~# cat vidfilelist.txt 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY 

If I were to do while read in; do ./youtube-dl "$in"; done < vidfilelist

it runs youtube-dl on each line of the file so it does e.g. youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo and then youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY

So it downloads the first one, then when that one has completed, it starts downloading the second one.

So it's not simultaneous

If I put an ampersand at the end of each line

user@basicdroplettest1:~# cat ./vidfilelist.txt 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo &
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY &

Then do

user@basicdroplettest1:~# while read in; do ./youtube-dl "$in"; done < vidfilelist.txt 
[youtube] iXFvkJLqPqo: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Top Johnny Depp Comebacks & Reactions to Questioning While Testifying-iXFvkJLqPqo.mp4
[download]   2.5% of 20.67MiB at 50.65KiB/s ETA 06:47

[download]   3.0% of 20.67MiB at 50.90KiB/s ETA 06:43



[download]   3.2% of 20.67MiB at 50.95KiB/s ETA 06:41

[download]   5.5% of 20.67MiB at 51.04KiB/s ETA 06:31

See above, i'm hitting ENTER, but it's not going into the background and onto the next one..

So that hasn't worked.

Any ideas how I can get it to download each of the video files in the file, in the background?

(as opposed to downloading one, followed by the other).

How do you download multiple files/videos, simultaneously, on a basic digitalocean droplet?

Let's say I create a basic digitalocean droplet/VPS, that runs Ubuntu

I start the console

I do apt install python and wget https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl and chmod 777 youtube-dl

There are some files that I want to download e.g. these two video files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo (the johnny depp one, about 11min long)

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY (a ricky gervais one)

I've got a file with the two videos

user@basicdroplettest1:~# cat vidfilelist.txt 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY 

If I were to do while read in; do ./youtube-dl "$in"; done < vidfilelist

it runs youtube-dl on each line of the file so it does e.g. youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo and then youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY

So it downloads the first one, then when that one has completed, it starts downloading the second one.

So it's not simultaneous

If I put an ampersand at the end of each line

user@basicdroplettest1:~# cat ./vidfilelist.txt 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo &
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY &

Then do

(this bash while command courtesy of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13939038/how-do-you-run-a-command-eg-chmod-for-each-line-of-a-file )

user@basicdroplettest1:~# while read in; do ./youtube-dl "$in"; done < vidfilelist.txt 
[youtube] iXFvkJLqPqo: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Top Johnny Depp Comebacks & Reactions to Questioning While Testifying-iXFvkJLqPqo.mp4
[download]   2.5% of 20.67MiB at 50.65KiB/s ETA 06:47

[download]   3.0% of 20.67MiB at 50.90KiB/s ETA 06:43



[download]   3.2% of 20.67MiB at 50.95KiB/s ETA 06:41

[download]   5.5% of 20.67MiB at 51.04KiB/s ETA 06:31

See above, i'm hitting ENTER, but it's not going into the background and onto the next one..

So that hasn't worked.

Any ideas how I can get it to download each of the video files in the file, in the background?

(as opposed to downloading one, followed by the other).

How do you download multiple files/videos, simultaneously, on a basic digitalocean droplet?

Let's say I create a basic digitalocean droplet/VPS, that runs Ubuntu

I start the console

I do apt install python and wget https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl and chmod 777 youtube-dl

There are some files that I want to download e.g. these two video files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo (the johnny depp one, about 11min long)

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY (a ricky gervais one)

I've got a file with the two videos

user@basicdroplettest1:~# cat vidfilelist.txt 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY 

If I were to do while read in; do ./youtube-dl "$in"; done < vidfilelist

Then it downloads the first one, then when that one has completed, it starts downloading the second one.

So it's not simultaneous

If I put an ampersand at the end of each line

user@basicdroplettest1:~# cat ./vidfilelist.txt 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo &
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY &

Then do

user@basicdroplettest1:~# while read in; do ./youtube-dl "$in"; done < vidfilelist.txt 
[youtube] iXFvkJLqPqo: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Top Johnny Depp Comebacks & Reactions to Questioning While Testifying-iXFvkJLqPqo.mp4
[download]   2.5% of 20.67MiB at 50.65KiB/s ETA 06:47

[download]   3.0% of 20.67MiB at 50.90KiB/s ETA 06:43



[download]   3.2% of 20.67MiB at 50.95KiB/s ETA 06:41

[download]   5.5% of 20.67MiB at 51.04KiB/s ETA 06:31

See above, i'm hitting ENTER, but it's not going into the background and onto the next one..

So that hasn't worked.

Any ideas how I can get it to download each of the video files in the file, in the background?

(as opposed to downloading one, followed by the other).

How do you download multiple files/videos, simultaneously, on a basic digitalocean droplet?

Let's say I create a basic digitalocean droplet/VPS, that runs Ubuntu

I start the console

I do apt install python and wget https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl and chmod 777 youtube-dl

There are some files that I want to download e.g. these two video files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo (the johnny depp one, about 11min long)

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY (a ricky gervais one)

I've got a file with the two videos

user@basicdroplettest1:~# cat vidfilelist.txt 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY 

If I were to do while read in; do ./youtube-dl "$in"; done < vidfilelist

it runs youtube-dl on each line of the file so it does e.g. youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo and then youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY

So it downloads the first one, then when that one has completed, it starts downloading the second one.

So it's not simultaneous

If I put an ampersand at the end of each line

user@basicdroplettest1:~# cat ./vidfilelist.txt 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo &
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY &

Then do

user@basicdroplettest1:~# while read in; do ./youtube-dl "$in"; done < vidfilelist.txt 
[youtube] iXFvkJLqPqo: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Top Johnny Depp Comebacks & Reactions to Questioning While Testifying-iXFvkJLqPqo.mp4
[download]   2.5% of 20.67MiB at 50.65KiB/s ETA 06:47

[download]   3.0% of 20.67MiB at 50.90KiB/s ETA 06:43



[download]   3.2% of 20.67MiB at 50.95KiB/s ETA 06:41

[download]   5.5% of 20.67MiB at 51.04KiB/s ETA 06:31

See above, i'm hitting ENTER, but it's not going into the background and onto the next one..

So that hasn't worked.

Any ideas how I can get it to download each of the video files in the file, in the background?

(as opposed to downloading one, followed by the other).