Apparently I am not reading it wrong. Read my previous e-mail to this list on this thread.
Sent from my iPad > On Mar 1, 2014, at 8:55 PM, Chris Down <ch...@chrisdown.name> wrote: > >> On 2014-03-01 11:29:03 -0800, Dave Yost wrote: >> In http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#GNU-Parallel >> >> Where you say >> ls *.gz | parallel -j+0 "zcat {} | bzip2 >{.}.bz2 && rm {}" >> This will recompress all files in the current directory with names ending in >> .gz using bzip2, running one job per CPU (-j+0) in parallel. >> >> it should be >> ls *.gz | parallel -j+0 "zcat {} | bzip2 >{.}.bz2 && rm {}" >> This will recompress all files in the current directory with names ending in >> .bz2 using bzip2, running one job per CPU (-j+0) in parallel. > > I think you're reading this wrong. "With" in this context is a > limitation of the glob selection, not the output filename.
