Re: sh: -c: option requires an argument on Cygwin

[Geoffrey Cleaves]

Maybe the problem is that I'm using a *newer* version?

$ uname
CYGWIN_NT-10.0

I'll try your version and report back.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:47 PM Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> wrote:

I cannot replicate the problem in Cygwin 0.8.1

$ parallel -k echo ::: A B C
parallel: Warning: $SHELL not set. Using /bin/sh.
A
B
C
$ SHELL=/bin/bash parallel -k echo ::: A B C
A
B
C
$ SHELL=/bin/sh parallel -k echo ::: A B C
A
B
C

Could you be using a non-standard shell or an older version of Cygwin?

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On 05-Mar-20 18:43, Geoffrey Cleaves wrote:
> Hello, I have been an avid user of parallel on Mac OS and Linux over the
> last 5 years. But I now find myself using Windows with the following
> problem when trying to run parallel in Cygwin.
>
> $ parallel -k echo ::: A B C
> sh: -c: option requires an argument
> sh: -c: option requires an argument
> ... never stops
>
> $ parallel --version , however, works just fine.
>
> Any tips on how to fix this?