Re: parallel error

[Hans Schou]

2011/3/19 Alex Copeland <accopeland@lbl.gov>:
> I've taken a recent example from the newsgroup as perhaps the simplest
> possible test case for parallel. On my system it produces an erorr,
> which I'm hoping someone can explain/solve since I'd love to be able
> to use this tool.
>
>> seq 1 10 | parallel -j1 "sleep 1; echo {}" | parallel echo
> sh: 8: command not found

Strange. What shell are you using?
What version of parallel are you using? parallel --version

Can you execute these:
  parallel echo ::: 123
  parallel echo ::: 123 456
  parallel echo {}{} ::: 123


/hans