2011/3/19 Alex Copeland :
> I've taken a recent example from the newsgroup as perhaps the simplest
> possible test case for parallel. On my system it produces an erorr,
> which I'm hoping someone can explain/solve since I'd love to be able
> to use this tool.
>
>> seq 1 10 | parallel -j1 "sleep 1;
Thanks.
Maybe coincidence, but 8 is the number of cpus on the system which
returns the errors below.
> bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> parallel --version
GNU parallel 20110205
Copyright (C) 2007,2008,2009
