Re: Is there any advantage to turning the following rsync cmd into a parallel cmd?

[Alex Muir]

Okay interesting, Thanks Ole.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've created a nice script with parallel and then I use rsync to
>> return output files which are various files, html and zip in several
>> different directories. My client is wondering if the rsync aspect at
>> the end can be done with parallel and if there would be an benefit to
>> doing that and insisted I ask about it.
>>
>> Looking at the documentation I saw the one can --return files that
>> were used as input files as well as create another command to return
>> files generally. It was not clear to me though if one could return
>> directories recursively as I do with the below rsync commands.
>
> I never tried before today, but it seems to work just fine:
>
> parallel -S localhost --trc {.}  'mkdir {.}; cp {}  {.}/abc{}' ::: a.b c.d e.f
> parallel -S localhost --trc a{.}  'mkdir a{.}; cp {}  a{.}/abc{}' :::
> a.b c.d e.f
> parallel -S localhost --trc {.}  'mkdir {.}; cp {}  {.}/abc{}' ::: a.1 a.2 a.3
>
> The last will complain that the dir 'a' already exists, but will work fine.
>
>
> /Ole



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