Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-03-05 Thread John Kearney
Am 06.03.2013 01:03, schrieb Linda Walsh: > > John Kearney wrote: >> The example is bad anyway as you normally don't want to parallelize disk >> io , due to seek overhead and io bottle neck congestion. This example >> will be slower and more likely to damage your disk than simply using mv >> on its

Re: gnu parallel in the bash manual

2013-03-05 Thread Linda Walsh
John Kearney wrote: > The example is bad anyway as you normally don't want to parallelize disk > io , due to seek overhead and io bottle neck congestion. This example > will be slower and more likely to damage your disk than simply using mv > on its own. but thats another discussion. ---

Re: documentation... readonly help is not accurate

2013-03-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/4/13 11:12 AM, Gotmy Nick wrote: > On 4 March 2013 14:51, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> This isn't accurate. Run the following script: >> >> foo() >> { >> echo foo >> } >> bar=quux >> >> readonly foo >> readonly bar >> >> readonly >> >> In addition to the built-in bash readonly variables,

Here document / redirection / background process weirdness

2013-03-05 Thread Martin Jackson
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='unknown' -DLOCALEDIR='/home/mjackson/src