Re: Bug-parallel post from address@hidden requires approval

[Ole Tange]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Postmann Michael CMTI sIT
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 3:54 PM "Ole Tange" wrote:
>
>> If you just type:
>>
>>   parallel
>>
>> it will read lines from stdin (i.e. your keyboard) and execute them in
>> parallel. Usually that is not what you want. Maybe it should spit out
>> a warning if you are doing that.

The git version will do just that.

>> Please test this:
>>
>>   parallel -k echo ::: this is a test
:
> Well, this solved my problem.
:
> What I did wrong:
>
> I installed "parallel" on an AIX server where I don't have root access. So I 
> did a "./configure --prefix=/myprograms/ && make && make install". As the 
> manpage is not in it's default location a simple "man parallel" did not show 
> the man page (and I did not think of modifying ${MANPATH}). "--help" did not 
> work either. So I installed "parallel" on my local machine which runs Ubuntu 
> with "apt-get install parallel" and looked at it's manpage.

On GNU/Linux you can do:

  man ./parallel.1

This way you do not need to change your manpath. Maybe that works on AIX, too.

> What I did not realize: These seem to be two different "parallel" programs 
> which are labled the same and basically do the same job but have different 
> syntax.

Yes you are right. GNU Parallel is not the one you get with Ubuntu. If
you feel it should be I encourage you to file a
Request-For-Enhancement with Ubuntu.


/Ole