Parallel input from growing file?

2014-12-14 Thread xmoon 2000
Hi, Currently I read jobs from a file on my c drive that gets written to by other scripts, and my master script runs each job found in background with &. I want to use parallel instead of my own script. I would like parallel to monitor this file and run any jobs in it with as many cores as are av

Re: Parallel input from growing file?

2014-12-14 Thread Hans Schou
Start reading this chapter in the man page: EXAMPLE: GNU Parallel as queue system/batch manager You are not the first who (mis-)use Gnu Parallel as a queue manager. /hans 2014-12-14 12:01 GMT+01:00 xmoon 2000 : > > Hi, > > Currently I read jobs from a file on my c drive that gets written to >