Thank you for the suggestion, Joe. Adding --ungroup to my command gives
the desired outcome.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:44 PM Joe Sapp <sa...@ieee.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 6:03 AM John <gray...@archlinux.us> wrote:
>
>> When I run the simple script below, initially, there is no output to the
>> shell until the function finishes. Is there a switch I can use for
>> parallel so that the function outputs below the sleep command finishes?
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> hash=( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 )
>>
>> getit() {
>> echo "this is $1"
>> sleep 1s
>> }
>>
>> export -f getit
>> parallel -j 3 getit ::: "${hash[@]}"
>>
>
> Try `--line-buffer` or `--ungroup` as you prefer (the man page says
> `--group` is the default).
>
> --
> Joe Sapp
>
