Re: Use of newlines with --tagstring feature

[Ole Tange]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Colleen Josephson <cjoseph@mit.edu> wrote:
> If I pass the option --tagstring "--------------------\n" the output
> is prefixed with dashes and a slash and 'n', instead of dashes
> followed by a newline. Similarly, if the tagstring contains a tab
> code, '\t', a slash and a 't' are printed out instead of a tab.
>
> The command I'm using is:
>
> parallel --tagstring "-------------\n" -j +0 --eta
> /usr/sbin/testframework --no-status  ":::" `find ~/tests -type f -name
> "*.test"`
>
> Any suggestions on how to get the newline out of tagstring, or an
> alternative approach that will do something similar is appreciated.

Upgrade to parallel-20150322 or later.

/Ole