I'm getting a chance to look at this.
> this is actually more disturbing.
>
> ls | parallel mv {} destdir
That's straight from the parallel manual. Pretty much all of the examples
are from the parallel manual.
Ole Tange, GNU parallel's author, supplied the text and examples. It
would be more helpful to report problems to the parallel bug address if
you feel strongly about it.
> Or the examples should at least be fixed. there are terrible practices
> being shown there.
You might consider reporting such problems to bug-paral...@gnu.org so the
source material can be fixed.
Chet
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