2017-02-10 6:46 GMT+01:00 Prince Sibanda <[email protected]>:

> So i have several programs to pipe together, where each program in the
> pipe could optionally run in parallel.
>

It sounds like you will have that in shell script and then call parallel.


> I would like an extension where GNU Parallel is able to read a user
> supplied file in which one can specify a list of programs to run at each
> pipe stage, and qualify the data that moves through the pipe.
>

You have to describe it more detailed about what input should give what
output. Give some examples.

I would also like to  have GNU Parallel be interactive so that once it has
> started running, i could issue commands to leave out certain files or to
> bypass certain programs in the pipe. This is the most basic version of the
> extension
>

You can get feedback with --eta and --joblog. That could be used for input
to your joblist. And you are always free to implement it yourself.

./hans

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