Re: Bash for loop parallelising

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Samdani,

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:40:35 +0530
Samdani A <samdani1593@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Am trying to convert a simple bash script file which is given below. I was
> able to do it using parallel but not able to use multiple functions in the
> same line. Is there any other possible way to do the full job inside the
> for loop using parallel?
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> mkdir csv
> for f in *.txt
> do
>   command -n -c $f >${f%.txt}.csv
>   mv ${f%.txt}.csv csv/
>   rm $f

This code is potentially insecure due to the lack of "..." around the $f. See:

* http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/14671.html

* http://perl-begin.org/topics/security/code-markup-injection/

Please avoid it in the future.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish


> done
> 
> 
> using parallel:
> 
> parallel command -n -c {} '>' {.}.csv ::: *.txt



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