On 15 December 2011 21:36, Ole Tange <[email protected]> wrote: > As it is now, you can run: > > parallel -a table_file.tsv --skip-first-line --colsep '\t' cmd > -o {1} -i {2} > > I see very little benefit in adding the extra option, so you need to > show me better examples where this could be helpful. It will also help > if others can provide these examples. > >> Computational Biology - Stowers Institute for Medical Research > > I suspect you need it for some bioinformatics, if so feel free to show > what bioinformatics files you need it for.
Maintainability of code that deals with database dumps where the column orderings could be altered (such as adding a single new field) is a good and common example. Instead of relying on column order you can refer to each field by its label, this is also a lot more readable too.
