Ubuntu provides an older version of parallel - suggestion to retrofit my usage?

2013-02-14 Thread John
Ubuntu 12.10 seems to be providing GNU parallel 20120422.  I am trying to run a script that uses features that are apparently contained in a newer version.   The code to the script can be found at the link below, but I think that this is the main part: parallel -k do_clean ::: "${toclean[@]}" 2>

--pipe --retries

2013-02-14 Thread Ole Tange
I am considering if --pipe --retries will make sense. The idea is here that if the spawned command fails, it will be re-run with the same input. One of the prices for that will be that GNU Parallel needs to keep a copy of the --block in memory for each of the spawned processes. If you can see a