DQ-DEQUE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

dq-deque — bestie, this is the lil tool that runs a command on one task from an IPC::DirQueue queue 💖 (and yes, it's dq-deque(1), section 1, user commands, we love a classic 🎀)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dq-deque --dir qdirectory command arg arg ...

That's it. That's the whole vibe. --dir first, then whatever command you wanna run, then all its lil args trailing behind 🦋

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea, bestie ☕

dq-deque grabs one task out of an IPC::DirQueue directory, runs the command you told it to run, and then dips. One task. Then exit. That's the whole job and honestly? iconic. not me being obsessed with a single-purpose tool 🙈

The command gets run like this:

command arg arg ... nameofdatafile

so like, the way that works is: everything you pass after the options becomes command plus its args, and then dq-deque tacks the name of the data file onto the end of that as the very last argument. no cap. your command gets the datafile name as a bonus final arg whether you asked for it or not — that's the whole point, that's how you get handed the task 💖

so if you're writing the command, plan for that trailing filename, fr fr.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too, they're the whole squad:

• IPC::DirQueue(3)
• dq-deque(1)
• dq-list(1)
• dq-server(1)
• dq-submit(1)

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mwah 💋 this page is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual — ty for coming to my ted talk, slay, periodt ✨🫶