Re: files not deleted on remote machine with --cleanup

[James Gibbon]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:12:13 +0000
James Gibbon <jg@jamesgibbon.com> wrote:

> 
> $ ls -d *.wav | parallel -j+0 -Ssauce,: --workdir /tmp \
>   --cleanup --transfer --return {.}.flac /usr/bin/flac {}
> 
> Shouldn't the --cleanup flag cause all transferred wavs to be
> deleted on the remote machine? I'm using version 20101113.
> 


OK. Apologies for replying to my own email, but here's the problem.
Running the above with -vv -D shows what's happening under the
hood:

ssh sauce mkdir -p /tmp; rsync -rlDzRE -essh ./ziggy001.wav sauce:/tmp;ssh 
sauce PARALLEL_SEQ=$PARALLEL_SEQ\;export 
PARALLEL_SEQ\;PARALLEL_PID=$PARALLEL_PID\;export PARALLEL_PID\; cd\ /tmp\ \&\&\ 
/usr/bin/flac\ ziggy001.wav;_EXIT_status=$?; rsync -rlDzRE -essh 
--remove-source-files sauce:/tmp/./ziggy001.flac ./;ssh sauce rm -f 
ziggy001.wav ; exit $_EXIT_status;


.. the trouble is the "rm -f" that's invoked to remove the transferred
file isn't aimed at the directory specified by '--workdir'. It would
work fine if I was using my home directory, but I'm not. I think it needs
to do ssh sauce "cd /tmp && rm -f ziggy001.wav".

Cheers,
James



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