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>
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