Re: option for performing dry run

[Ole Tange]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Cook, Malcolm <MEC@stowers.org> wrote:
>> > It would be great if parallel had an option to NOT execute
>> the command
>>
>> Let me see if I understand you correctly. What you want is -p
>> but without printing '?...' and with the automatic answer 'n'.
>
> exactly

Please try the git version:

$ parallel --dry-run echo '>' /tmp/{} ::: a b c
echo > /tmp/a
echo > /tmp/b
echo > /tmp/c
$ ls -l /tmp/?
ls: cannot access /tmp/?: No such file or directory


/Ole