parallel error

[Alex Copeland]

I've taken a recent example from the newsgroup as perhaps the simplest
possible test case for parallel. On my system it produces an erorr,
which I'm hoping someone can explain/solve since I'd love to be able
to use this tool.

> seq 1 10 | parallel -j1 "sleep 1; echo {}" | parallel echo
sh: 8: command not found
sh: 8: command not found
sh: 8: command not found
sh: 8: command not found
sh: 8: command not found
sh: 8: command not found
sh: 8: command not found
sh: 8: command not found
sh: 8: command not found
sh: 8: command not found
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 8.
open3: exec of 8 echo 1 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 8.
open3: exec of 8 echo 2 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 8.
open3: exec of 8 echo 3 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 8.
open3: exec of 8 echo 4 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 8.
open3: exec of 8 echo 5 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 8.
open3: exec of 8 echo 6 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 8.
open3: exec of 8 echo 7 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 8.
open3: exec of 8 echo 8 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 9.
open3: exec of 8 echo 9 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270, <STDIN> line 10.
open3: exec of 8 echo 10 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921