Hi,
when parallel transfers a file to a remote machine, e.g. a basefile, it
creates the required directories on remote if they don't exist and uses
pre-existing directories otherwise.
However if the target directory on the remote machine is a symlink to
another directory, it will replace it with a directory instead of
putting the transfered file into the linked target directory.
An example:
# on remote:
mkdir remoteLinkTarget
ln -s $HOME/remoteLinkTarget $HOME/wd
# on local
mkdir wd
touch wd/testfile
parallel --nonall --sshloginfile remoteHosts --basefile wd/testfile
# wd on remote is now a directory containing the testfile and the
symlink is gone
# I would have expected testfile to be placed physically under
$HOME/remoteLinkTarget/testfile
Is it intended to behave like that?
Version: GNU parallel 20170522
Cheers,
Benjamin
