RE: Bug-parallel post from address@hidden requires approval

[Postmann Michael CMTI sIT]

On Wednesday, October 06, 2010 3:54 PM "Ole Tange" wrote:

> From: Postmann Michael CMTI sIT <address@hidden>
> 
>> Perl version: This is perl, v5.8.2 built for aix-thread-multi
>> 
>> When I start "parallel" it hangs forever.
> 
> Do the examples run as described in the man page?
> 
> If you just type:
> 
>   parallel
> 
> it will read lines from stdin (i.e. your keyboard) and execute them in
> parallel. Usually that is not what you want. Maybe it should spit out
> a warning if you are doing that. Please test this:
> 
>   parallel -k echo ::: this is a test
> 
> It should run echo 4 times and print out:
> 
> this
> is
> a
> test
> 
> 
> /Ole

Well, this solved my problem.

I am stupid!

What I did wrong:

I installed "parallel" on an AIX server where I don't have root access. So I 
did a "./configure --prefix=/myprograms/ && make && make install". As the 
manpage is not in it's default location a simple "man parallel" did not show 
the man page (and I did not think of modifying ${MANPATH}). "--help" did not 
work either. So I installed "parallel" on my local machine which runs Ubuntu 
with "apt-get install parallel" and looked at it's manpage.

What I did not realize: These seem to be two different "parallel" programs 
which are labled the same and basically do the same job but have different 
syntax.

Anyway, thanks for your help and time.

cheers
nomike