Re: Parallel script with variable name

2019-02-28 Thread Ernst, Kevin
Hi Lindsey, If I’m understanding you correctly, then {} (a pair of curly braces) is what you want. It’s the “variable” that holds the names of the things coming in on parallel‘s standard input, and it gets a different value, one for each input line, for each invocation of lots_of_stuff. The

Re: Parallel script with variable name

2019-02-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Ms. Fenderson, On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:20:13 +1030 Lindsey Fenderson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm very new to using GNU parallel, so this is probably a simple question > but I haven't been able to figure out from the resources online how to do > the following: > > I have a very long script that I

Parallel script with variable name

2019-02-27 Thread Lindsey Fenderson
Hi, I'm very new to using GNU parallel, so this is probably a simple question but I haven't been able to figure out from the resources online how to do the following: I have a very long script that I am running over multiple input files and I would like to parallelize this process. So for