Re: parallel error

[Alex Copeland]

Thanks.
Maybe coincidence, but 8 is the number of cpus on the system which
returns the errors below.

> bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

> parallel --version
GNU parallel 20110205
Copyright (C) 2007,2008,2009,2010 Ole Tange and Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
GNU parallel comes with no warranty.

Web site: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel

> parallel echo ::: 123
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
open3: exec of 8 echo 123 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2907

>  parallel echo ::: 123 456
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
open3: exec of 8 echo 123 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2907
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
open3: exec of 8 echo 456 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2921

>  parallel echo {}{} ::: 123
Can't exec "8": No such file or directory at
/jgi/tools/lib/perl5/5.10.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
open3: exec of 8 echo 123123 failed at
/home/copeland/local/x86_64/bin/parallel line 2907

Alex


On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Hans Schou <chlor@schou.dk> wrote:
> 2011/3/19 Alex Copeland <accopeland@lbl.gov>:
>> 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
>
> Strange. What shell are you using?
> What version of parallel are you using? parallel --version
>
> Can you execute these:
>  parallel echo ::: 123
>  parallel echo ::: 123 456
>  parallel echo {}{} ::: 123
>
>
> /hans
>
>