Hi,

I wonder whether it would be possible/desirable to have an option to update
gnu parallel via an option to the program, such that it would be possible
to do the following to retrieve the latest version:

parallel --update

Since it's contained in a single perl script and released to a single
location (with the latest version given by parallel-latest.tar.bz2), this
might be possible.

Personally, I download new versions from the ftp archive when they are
released, so having an update option to parallel itself would be very
convenient.

It might be as simple as having `parallel --update` run the following:
(wget -O - pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/) | bash

Thanks,
Shyam

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