Package: parallel Version: 20120422-1 Severity: normal After a rather thorough RTFM session, I tried:
[1+0]~$ mkdir test-parallel [2+0]~$ cat > foobarbaz foo bar baz [3+0]~$ cat foobarbaz | parallel --gnu --pipe dd of=test-parallel/out'{}' ::: 1 2 3 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00162787 s, 0.0 kB/s 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 6 bytes (6 B) copied, 0.00293682 s, 2.0 kB/s 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000407992 s, 0.0 kB/s 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 7.072e-06 s, 0.0 kB/s [4+0]~$ ls -l test-parallel/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 itz itz 0 Sep 9 20:57 out [5+0]~$ cat test-parallel/out [6+0}~$ I expected rather something along the lines of: [4+0]~$ ls -l test-parallel/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 itz itz 4 Sep 9 20:57 out1 -rw-r--r-- 1 itz itz 4 Sep 9 20:57 out2 -rw-r--r-- 1 itz itz 4 Sep 9 20:57 out3 [5+0]~$ cat test-parallel/out1 foo [6+0]~$ cat test-parallel/out2 bar [7+0]~$ cat test-parallel/out3 baz I am beginning to share Joey's feelings wrt this version of parallel ... -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.10.10.2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages parallel depends on: ii perl 5.14.2-21 ii perl-modules 5.14.2-21 parallel recommends no packages. parallel suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/parallel/config changed: --gnu -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org