On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Alastair Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ole,
>
> If I manually run ls -a -l from the command line I get the usual long
> directory listing showing all the chmod info, file owner, size, date, name
> for the files and directories (including the hidden files). If I run parallel
> -v -bash -c ls ::: "-l -a" I don't get that. I just get the regular ls output
> (albeit parallel reports it as one item per line).
You are right, you need to quote the space to make it a single
argument for bash:
parallel -v touch {1}\; bash -c ls\\\ {2} ::: "my file" ::: "-l -a"
Or:
parallel -v touch {1}\; bash -c 'ls\ '{2} ::: "my file" ::: "-l -a"
It is starting to look ugly. Maybe I should re-introduce the option
for not having the arguments quoted. It The combined (above) will
still look the same but the non-combined would look like:
parallel -v --no-quoting ls {} ::: "-l -a"
which might be easier to read. The option was removed 20101129.
/Ole
