> I never envisioned --pipe should work with --files, so I never tested that.
OK, I understand, but then: Who wrote parallel's manpage?
$ man parallel | grep -C1 -e 'files.*pipe' -e 'pipe.*files'
--files is often used with --pipe.
--
cat bigfile | parallel --pipe --files sort |
parallel -Xj1 sort -m {} ';' rm {} >bigfile.sort
Thomas
