On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Jamshid Afshar <jamshi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Ole Tange <o...@tange.dk> wrote:
>> 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.
>> It is working when not using 'sem'/--semaphore.
>
> Thanks for confirming. This seems like a valuable feature, should I
> file an enhancement request or is it already in the works?

Please file one.

> In the meantime I'll look through examples again and see if I can
> accomplish what I want with --slf and a list of servers. Just trying
> to execute a collection of unit tests, one at a time per server, on a
> pool of servers.

I would reckon that if you have something that works with 'sem', then
it ought to be fairly easy to convert to a bash function and then just
call that from GNU Parallel.

/Ole

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