Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Running parallel from perl system() with redirects

[Andreas Bernauer]

On 13/01/15 5:25, Josef wells wrote:
> I have a problem that did not happen with version:
> GNU parallel 20130822
> But does happen with:
> GNU parallel 20141122
> 
> This works:
> parallel --joblog - ::: 'cat hello >& hello_log' > joblog 2>&1
> 
> But it doesn't work from inside a perl program.
> perl -e "system('parallel --joblog - ::: \'cat hello >& hello_log\' >
> joblog 2>&1');"
> joblog contains the error:
> /bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: Bad fd number

Maybe /bin/sh and your interactive shell are different shells?
Does the 'this works' command work with /bin/sh?

'>&' does not look like a redirection that /bin/sh is supposed to
understand.

-Andreas