Re: Possible bug with --resume and .csv --results

[Ole Tange]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 9:46 PM Joe Sapp <sappj@ieee.org> wrote:

> I tried a feature today (version 20210222) that I haven't before and
> got an unexpected error:
> > $ parallel -j1 --resume --joblog test_joblog.log --results test-$(date 
> > +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ).csv 'echo {}; sleep 2s' ::: $(seq 100)
> > mkdir test-20210303T203326Z.csv: File exists at 
> > /home/joe/.local/bin/parallel line 11126.
>
> And the file certainly does (now) exist, but I was not expecting it to
> write into it like a directory.
>
> Additionally, this command causes the error:
> > $ parallel -j1 --resume --results test-$(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ).csv 'echo 
> > {}; sleep 2s' ::: $(seq 100)

--results *.tsv/.csv is currently not supported with --resume.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?60179

The workaround is:

diff --git a/src/parallel b/src/parallel
index 3be9c66..f06b5ff 100755
--- a/src/parallel
+++ b/src/parallel
@@ -3452,7 +3452,7 @@ sub init_run_jobs() {
                   }
               } while ($job->is_already_in_joblog()
                        or
-                    ($opt::results and $opt::resume and
$job->is_already_in_results()));
+                  ($opt::results and not $Global::csvsep and
$opt::resume and $job->is_already_in_results()));
               debug("start", "Command to run on '",
$job->sshlogin()->string(), "': '",
                     $job->replaced(),"'\n");
               if($job->start()) {

/Ole