In Parallel TAR Archive Subfolders - Bash

parallel_tars.sh

src=$1
dest=$2
cd ${src}
for i in *
 do
    (
      if [ -d "$i" ];then
        tar czvf "${dest}/$i.tar.gz" -C "$i" .
      else 
       echo skiping $i as it is not folder
      fi
      sleep 1
    ) &
 done
 wait