Re: parallel refusing to take my request

2020-12-22 Thread Ecks Hecker
_Request for help_ Reiterating after 2 more weeks of failing to get what i want... basically, i am using a script to create a directory of sparse files, mainly like this: > find "$SOURCE" -type f > filelist > wc filelist # (returns 6917    6917  797053) > time createdirectoryfrom "$SOURCE" "$TARG

Re: parallel refusing to take my request

2020-12-22 Thread John Correira
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:53 PM Ecks Hecker wrote: > > > cat filelist | parallel --pipe -j24 createdirectoryfrom "$SOURCE" > "$TARGET" > > Have you tried using the -a option to read from filelist instead of using cat? John