On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Shantanu Unknown <shantanu9...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use gnu parallel and grep as follows > > cat tmp | parallel -j1 grep "^{} " ~/datafile.txt The "^{} " gets unquoted, so you need to quote that one more time. It can be done like this: cat tmp | parallel -j1 grep "^{}\ " ~/datafile.txt cat tmp | parallel -q -j1 grep "^{} " ~/datafile.txt cat tmp | parallel -j1 grep '"^{} "' ~/datafile.txt /Ole