GNU Parallel 20140522 ('Boko Haram') released

2014-05-22 Thread Ole Tange
GNU Parallel 20140522 ('Boko Haram') has been released. It is available for download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/ New in this release: * Use --semaphoretimeout to ignore the semaphore lock after a while. * {%} introduced as job slot replacement string. It has

Your best GNU Parallel haikus

2014-05-22 Thread Ole Tange
(Don't know what a haiku is? Haikus are 3 lined, non-rhyming poems with 5-7-5 syllables.) During my campaigning for a 'NO' not the Danish referendum for the Unitary Patent Court (which will most likely accept software patents) I have won over may hearts by a simple haiku poem. Now I am going to t

Help running an example (Calling Bash functions) from the manual

2014-05-22 Thread Thompson, Matt (GSFC-610.1)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC]
However, I can't seem to run that! To wit I placed that example in a file called "tpar.bash" and just tried to run it, but it doesn't work: (231) $ parallel --version GNU parallel 20140522 Copyright (C) 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 Ole Tange and Free Software Founda