Ian> Is /usr/bin/parallel essentially 2 programs in one? Rogério> Essentially, yes.
Ian> Where is that documented? As I wrote, "man parallel" only Ian> documents the GNU behavior (which happens to be what I am used to Ian> and want). Rogério> Due to an unfortunate name collision, the package moreutils has Rogério> a command that is also called parallel. Yes, I knew that. In fact I have maintained a private parallel package for some time that did exactly the same thing as yours to deal with it, that is a divert to parallel.moreutils. But mine behaved as GNU by default and that is why I was surprised. Rogério> GNU parallel, to be compatible, also exposes that behavior, Rogério> when invoked with the --tollef option. Otherwise, it is the Rogério> pure GNU parallel behaviour. Rogério> The default behavior in Debian was chosen to be --tollef as Rogério> moreutils's presence in Debian predated GNU parallel for some Rogério> time and to not interfere with users that happen to have both Rogério> moreutils and GNU parallel installed. I see. I mistakenly thought this dual personality was a Debian invention. As it is it's clearly an upstream bug, they should document it in the manpage or at least in the README. Thanks for your attention. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c66875cda51109f76c6312f4d4743d1e.png Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
