-N and remote execution

[Ole Tange]

I have found a bug:

-N combined with --trc {#} gives surprising results.

However, I am not sure what the non-surprising would be. So: Dear
users, what should this do:

cat filelist | parallel -N2 --trc {2}.done -S .. echo {1} ">" {2}.done

Should it transfer a file with the meta name of {}? (That is what is done today)
Should it transfer 2 files, {1} and {2}? (This will be brand new, as
so far only one file is transferred to the remote per job)
Should it transfer {2}.done back?
Should it remove the files {}, {1}, {2} and {2}.done?
Should it only remove the files {1}, {2} and {2}.done?

And finally:

Would you use the facility of transferring multiple files to a remote
server for a single job? (i.e. am I wasting my time implementing
above)


/Ole