On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Jamshid Afshar <jamshi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to use the job slot number "{%}" in order to run a
> command on a pool of servers. I believe I am using the latest alpha
> build (on OSX, "brew install parallel"):
>
> $ sem --version
> GNU parallel 20140822
>
> Running all these commands at the same time seems to work as expected
> -- only three jobs run at a time, but "{%}" is always "1".
>
> I'd expect it to cycle 1-3.
I understand why you might expect that. But {%} is not stored between
invocations. So if we want {%} to work with 'sem' then we need somehow
to store that when starting the job and remove it when done.
> Am I doing something wrong or is this alpha feature not working yet?
It is working when not using 'sem'/--semaphore.
/Ole
