The manpage says that parallel takes it's input from the command line,
not stdin - e.g

parallel echo -- 1 2 3
1
2
3

I think you should be able to use xargs -P   to do what you want.

** Changed in: moreutils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071945

Title:
  parallel does nothing at all

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moreutils/+bug/1071945/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

Reply via email to