Package: moreutils Version: 0.65-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz Usertags: typo
The manual page is missing spaces before -- separators in the synopsis section. The examples later in the manual page make it clear that is incorrect and a space is needed in the shell before -- separators. $ man parallel | grep -C1 options SYNOPSIS parallel [options] [command]-- [argument ...] parallel [options]-- [command ...] $ man parallel | grep -- -- parallel [options] [command]-- [argument ...] parallel [options]-- [command ...] If no command is specified before the --, the commands after it are instead run in parallel. parallel sh -c "echo hi; sleep 2; echo bye" -- 1 2 3 parallel -j 3 ufraw -o processed -- *.NEF parallel -j 3 -- ls df "echo hi" -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental'), (500, 'testing-security') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages moreutils depends on: ii libc6 2.31-13 ii libipc-run-perl 20200505.0-1 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2 ii perl 5.32.1-4 moreutils recommends no packages. moreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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