Provide a simpler and more realistic example script that uses async

[ctbur]

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[davidjeddy]

Would a multi-file download (wget/curl) be acceptable?

[ctbur]

Yes, that's clearly better than the existing example. Maybe downloading and decompressing several tar files.

[UnixJunkie]

In a competing project (https://github.com/UnixJunkie/pardi), here is my demo script:

Compress a file in parallel using 1MB chunks:

pardi -d b:1048576 -m s -i <YOUR_BIG_FILE> -o <YOUR_BIG_FILE>.gz -w 'xz -c -9 %IN > %OUT'

[UnixJunkie]

I have another competing project also, this one older: https://github.com/UnixJunkie/PAR

It's fun that several people are not satisfied with GNU parallel.