RE: problem using nested parallel

[Shantanu Unknown]

> I am re-reading your question. Is what you want this:
>
> line1_of_file/output19
> line1_of_file/output20
> line1_of_file/output21
> line1_of_file/output22
> line2_of_file/output19
> line2_of_file/output20
> line2_of_file/output21
> line2_of_file/output22

Yes,

>
> In that case it is simply doing:
>
> cat filename | parallel seq 19 22 \| parallel -I @ echo {}/output@
Yes this works.

Thanks a lot for the help.

However I would like to know why the other things which I tried and what you had suggested did not work.

> which should work in any shell.
>
> /Ole