Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports --ssh 'autossh' not working and --ssh 'autossh -M {PORT} not expanded

[Andreas Bernauer]

On 23/09/15 7:41, Marco Tamassia wrote:
> This aside, my first email I was reporting a second bug.

I assume, you are referring to

> > Furthermore, I plan to run autossh with port monitoring. However,
since more of these connections will be launched in parallel, I need to
parameterize the arguments to autossh so that different ports are used
for parallel connections. The argument would look like --ssh 'autossh -M
{PORT}, but this is currently not expanded.

> Is that
> fixable? Even though I cannot think of other use cases for it, it seems
> to me that parameters expansion should be applied to all of parallel
> arguments (there may be exceptions, though). What do you guys think?
> 

I don't understand what you try to achieve. Why should ssh and the
command you want to execute on the remote take the same argument(s)?

-Andreas