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Re: dealing with exhausted list of work items
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Ole Tange |
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Re: dealing with exhausted list of work items |
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Wed, 21 Nov 2018 22:51:55 +0100 |
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:27 PM Christian Meesters
<meesters@uni-mainz.de> wrote:
> is it possible to let parallel trigger a command once the number of
> work-items is exhausted?
Use a wrapper that is triggered when it hits a magical value:
$ doit() { if [ "$1" = "done" ] ; then echo last command read; else
sleep 1; echo do stuff $1; fi }
$ parallel -j2 doit ::: 1 2 3 done
do stuff 1
do stuff 2
last command read
do stuff 3
/Ole