> From man parallel: > > Your bug report should always include: > > · The error message you get (if any). > > You failed to do that.
You are right. Initially there was no message, but I see that the script redirects the output to /dev/null so I removed the redirect and I get: parallel: Input is read from the terminal. Only experts do this on purpose. Press CTRL-D to exit. > I understand that you cannot use a newer version as you cannot expect > your users to install the newer version. But you fail to mention if > the problem disappears if you yourself install a newer version and if > so: at which version does the problem disappear. Also you fail to > mention if you have asked Ubuntu to upgrade their repositories to a > newer version. I have not opened an bug against the Ubuntu package because I do not know what is wrong with it. I was hoping you could give me some direction. Please read on :) > P.S: Did you read the first section in > http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#options Yes, I did. What specifically are you hinting to there? > It will also help troubleshooting if you can reproduce the error on a > smaller example; your script seems to do a lot more than just showing > the problem. > > ::: and -k are both in 20120422, so that is not the problem. You are correct; I was too hasty in my post to the ML. I can confirm that if I compile 20120422 from source on the Ubuntu box, everything works as expected so the problem is not with your code! Using the Ubuntu provided parallel-20120422: $ profile-cleaner f profile-cleaner v1.98 Cleaning profile for firefox parallel: Input is read from the terminal. Only experts do this on purpose. Press CTRL-D to exit. <<< Here it just hangs >>> If I remove the repo package and compile parallel v20120422 from source, everything works as it should $ cd parallel-20120422 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr $ make $ sudo make install $ parallel --version GNU parallel 20120422 $ profile-cleaner f profile-cleaner v1.98 Cleaning profile for firefox Cleaning cookies.sqlite done -.37 Mbytes Cleaning content-prefs.sqlite done -0 Mbytes Cleaning webappsstore.sqlite done -0 Mbytes Cleaning extensions.sqlite done -0 Mbytes Cleaning formhistory.sqlite done -0 Mbytes Cleaning downloads.sqlite done -0 Mbytes Cleaning permissions.sqlite done -0 Mbytes Cleaning signons.sqlite done -0 Mbytes Cleaning places.sqlite done -8.87 Mbytes Profile(s) for firefox reduced by 9.25 Mbytes.
