Re: option for performing dry run

[Ole Tange]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Cook, Malcolm <MEC@stowers.org> wrote:

> It would be great if parallel had an option to NOT execute the command
>
> akin to gnu `make`s --dry-run option.

Let me see if I understand you correctly. What you want is -p but
without printing '?...' and with the automatic answer 'n'.

Is that correct? Do you care if the output is to STDERR or STDOUT - or
is either fine?

/Ole