Re: Possible Bug In Quote Processing? (gnuparallel: message 15 of 20)

[Larry Ploetz]

No, that makes perfect sense, in retrospect, especially the vertical bar character being interpreted as a pipe or as an alternation character.

· Larry

On 2022-06-05 08:00 :54, Ole Tange - ole@tange.dk wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 1:12 AM Larry Ploetz <lploetz.sg@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would think these should all produce the same output
> >
> > $ parallel echo "{}" \| cat -nvet ::: VAR
> >      1  VAR$
> > $ parallel -q echo "{}" \| cat -nvet ::: VAR
> > VAR | cat -nvet
> > $ parallel echo {} \| cat -nvet ::: VAR
> >      1  VAR$
> > $ parallel -q echo {} \| cat -nvet ::: VAR
> > VAR | cat -nvet
> >       
> It is by design. Read:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html#always-running-commands-in-a-shell
>
> If it is still unclear, please write again, because then I need to
> improve the explanation.
>
>
> /Ole
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