On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:54 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't need to say how great GNU parallel is (GREAT!).

Good to hear.

>  But for the
> first time, I have encountered a behavior I didn't expect from it.  I
> am trying to break up a big input FASTA file (DNA sequence) using the
> --block and --recstart options.  But it always seems to create ONE
> more file than I really want.  I mean, if I have specified 10 jobs (-j
> 10), and if the block size on the 10th job is still below my
> specification (--block 1200), why does it make an 11th file?  This
> means that 10 jobs in parallel run, and then 1 MORE job has to run to
> get the last record.

It sounds like: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34241

/Ole

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