diff --git a/man/gnt-debug.sgml b/man/gnt-debug.sgml
index 2e624b053c8c334dd07b0c531d3f528453a0194a..89fd9e4a1f3aecc63e36d2e9a7864f5c352781b3 100644
--- a/man/gnt-debug.sgml
+++ b/man/gnt-debug.sgml
@@ -146,12 +146,12 @@
       <cmdsynopsis>
         <command>submit-job</command>
 
-        <arg choice="req">opcodes_file</arg>
+        <arg choice="req" rep="repeat">opcodes_file</arg>
       </cmdsynopsis>
 
       <para>
-        This command builds a list of opcodes from a JSON-format file
-        and submits them as a single job to the master daemon. It can
+        This command builds a list of opcodes from JSON-format files
+        and submits for each file a job to the master daemon. It can
         be used to test some options that are not available via the
         command line.
       </para>
diff --git a/scripts/gnt-debug b/scripts/gnt-debug
index ff7e01b307474d5085c8e48440cf6f8418eefcea..d3bf05450c3c08cc6ad94de10d744dbc4d3273cd 100755
--- a/scripts/gnt-debug
+++ b/scripts/gnt-debug
@@ -71,12 +71,19 @@ def GenericOpCodes(opts, args):
 
   """
   cl = cli.GetClient()
-  fname = args[0]
-  op_data = simplejson.loads(open(fname).read())
-  op_list = [opcodes.OpCode.LoadOpCode(val) for val in op_data]
-  jid = cli.SendJob(op_list, cl=cl)
-  ToStdout("Job id: %s", jid)
-  cli.PollJob(jid, cl=cl)
+  job_data = []
+  job_ids = []
+  for fname in args:
+    op_data = simplejson.loads(open(fname).read())
+    op_list = [opcodes.OpCode.LoadOpCode(val) for val in op_data]
+    job_data.append((fname, op_list))
+  for fname, op_list in job_data:
+    jid = cli.SendJob(op_list, cl=cl)
+    ToStdout("File '%s', job id: %s", fname, jid)
+    job_ids.append(jid)
+  for jid in job_ids:
+    ToStdout("Waiting for job id %s", jid)
+    cli.PollJob(jid, cl=cl)
   return 0
 
 
@@ -139,11 +146,11 @@ commands = {
                          help="Select nodes to sleep on"),
              ],
             "[opts...] <duration>", "Executes a TestDelay OpCode"),
-  'submit-job': (GenericOpCodes, ARGS_ONE,
+  'submit-job': (GenericOpCodes, ARGS_ATLEAST(1),
                  [DEBUG_OPT,
                   ],
-                 "<op_list_file>", "Submits a job built from a json-file"
-                 " with a list of serialized opcodes"),
+                 "<op_list_file...>", "Submits jobs built from json files"
+                 " containing a list of serialized opcodes"),
   'allocator': (TestAllocator, ARGS_ONE,
                 [DEBUG_OPT,
                  make_option("--dir", dest="direction",