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

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 (to install a package that is needed by a command i’m going to use)

and

wget https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl and chmod 777 youtube-dl

(to install a command called youtube-dl that lets me download youtube videos)

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 links to the videos I want to download

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

This command

while read in; do ./youtube-dl “$in”; done < vidfilelist

will execute youtube-dl on each line of that file, so it’ll do

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFvkJLqPqo

and

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwtKBC6iQY

The problem is

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, we see it still doesn’t work.

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

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).