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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4d48064..3028870 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -52,6 +52,40 @@ different queues for different purposes is encouraged. All these operations take worst-case quadratic time in the amount of lock files produced, so you should clean them regularly. +## Examples + +Build targets `clean`, `depends`, `all`, without occupying the terminal: + + % nq make clean + % nq make depends + % nq make all + % fq + ... look at output, can interrupt with C-c any time + without stopping the build ... + +Simple download queue, accessible from multiple terminals: + + % mkdir -p /tmp/downloads + % alias qget='NQDIR=/tmp/downloads nq wget' + % alias qwait='NQDIR=/tmp/downloads fq -q' + window1% qget http://mymirror/big1.iso + window2% qget http://mymirror/big2.iso + window3% qget http://mymirror/big3.iso + % qwait + ... wait for all downloads to finish ... + +As nohup replacement (The benchmark will run in background, every run +gets a different output file, and the command line you ran is logged +too.): + + % ssh remote + remote% nq ./run-benchmark + ,14f6f3034f8.17035 + remote% ^D + % ssh remote + remote% fq + ... see output, fq exits when job finished ... + ## Assumptions `nq` will only work correctly when: |