Thanks. Maybe coincidence, but 8 is the number of cpus on the system which returns the errors below.
> bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > parallel --version GNU parallel 20110205 Copyright (C) 2007,2008,2009,2010 Ole Tange and Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. GNU parallel comes with no warranty. Web site: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel > parallel echo ::: 123 Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at /jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270. open3: exec of 8 echo 123 failed at /home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2907 > parallel echo ::: 123 456 Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at /jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270. open3: exec of 8 echo 123 failed at /home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2907 Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at /jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270. open3: exec of 8 echo 456 failed at /home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921 > parallel echo {}{} ::: 123 Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at /jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270. open3: exec of 8 echo 123123 failed at /home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2907 Alex On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Hans Schou <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/3/19 Alex Copeland <[email protected]>: >> I've taken a recent example from the newsgroup as perhaps the simplest >> possible test case for parallel. On my system it produces an erorr, >> which I'm hoping someone can explain/solve since I'd love to be able >> to use this tool. >> >>> seq 1 10 | parallel -j1 "sleep 1; echo {}" | parallel echo >> sh: 8: command not found > > Strange. What shell are you using? > What version of parallel are you using? parallel --version > > Can you execute these: > parallel echo ::: 123 > parallel echo ::: 123 456 > parallel echo {}{} ::: 123 > > > /hans > >
