I will do that.  However, I will also point out that THIS is the version
that is installed with a simple apt-get in Ubuntu 16.04 -- a LTS system.

So if the most recent updates to 16.04 breaks THIS version of parallel --
then it is still a bug that warrants reporting.

-- J



On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 6:44 AM Hubert Kowalski <h.kowal...@hakger.pl>
wrote:

> always try newest version. 20141022 is 4 years old!
>
> Dnia 28 listopad 2018 o 01:07 Jonathan Franklin <
> jonathan.franklin.1...@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>
> Hello,
>
>    I have used your code for a while now without any issues, but all of a
> sudden it has started throwing an error message at me.  I am writing as
> directed in the error message itself.
>
>    Even just running one of the examples in the man document produces the
> same error:
>
>
> parallel: This should not happen. You have found a bug.
> Please contact < parallel@gnu.org> and include:
> * The version number: 20141022
> * The bugid: pidtable format: 2009 1971
>
> * The command line being run
> * The files being read (put the files on a webserver if they are big)
>
> If you get the error on smaller/fewer files, please include those instead.
>
>
> In this case I put a pile of .png files into a directory and then from
> within that directory ran:
>
> >> find . -name '*.png' | parallel gzip --best
>
> I recognize that this is an older version of parallel, but it is the one
> that comes with Ubuntu 16.04 and it has worked FINE up until I tried it
> today.  The last time I ran it was about 2 weeks ago and it worked fine
> then.   I have done standard security updates of my linux box since then,
> but no major upgrades or any other software installations since then.
>
> Thank you kindly for your help with this issue,
>
>         -- Jonathan
>
>
>
>

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