On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:41 PM, paralleluser
wrote:
:
> Question 1:
> The choice of ::: and are unique. Yes, they are arbitrary and they can
> be changed with parallel command line arguments. But how/why where they
> chosen? I have a good guess as to why ":" and "::" were not used, but
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:42 PM, paralleluser
wrote:
> Question 2:
> There are a multitude of ways to give GNU parallel arguments contained in a
> file.
>
> 1. cat argfile | parallel
> 2. parallel < argfile
> 3. parallel argfile
> 4. parallel ::: `cat argfile`
> 5. parallel -a argfile
>
>
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:41 PM, paralleluser
wrote:
> I want to begin by thanking Ole Tange for all his work and continuing efforts
> with GNU Parallel. It is a very impressive set of work.
Thanks.
> I've read over all the parallel docs, the man pages, the tutorials, the
> comparisons with
