On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Dietmar Pils <[email protected]> wrote: > dear ole, > > if you have read (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_%28process%29) > the problem accurately you would have recognised, that it is a simple > problem, not the command per se doesn't work, but it doesn't work from > inside a script: it seems that you have to export the command (this is > not very well documented). this you could have advised without > instructing users how to write error reports...
Hi Dietmar. A good error report would answer the following questions: * What is the output you get? What is the output you expected? * What error messages do you get? * What is the minimal script that reproduces the error? (e.g. does 'parallel echo ::: 1 2 3' also not work in the script?) * What version of parallel do you run? * If you suspect the error is dependent on your environment, can you reproduce the error on one of these VirtualBox images: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/ This is described in the man page (in the section REPORTING BUGS). With decent error reports you are more likely to get a useful answer. Exporting should only be needed if you call functions from GNU Parallel, and your example does not do that. /Ole
