I have a command that takes parameters like "'a {} b {}'" (that's one shell
word), where I want each {} replaced with the (same, single) item from
stdin. Right now, I can only seem to give one parameter to each job:
$ seq 4 | parallel echo "'a {} b {}'"
a 1 b 1
a 2 b 2
a 3 b 3
a 4 b 4
I'd like t
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Jay Hacker wrote:
> I'd like to be able to give as many parameters as will fit on a command
> line, so I can fork less jobs:
>
> $ seq 4 | parallel -??? echo "'a {} b {}'"
> a 1 b 1 a 2 b 2 a 3 b 3 a 4 b 4
>
> I looked into -X, -L, -n, -m, --xargs, and variations,
