RE: option for performing dry run

[Cook, Malcolm]

> > 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'.

exactly

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

yes!


> /Ole

By the way, I just presented an example of using parallel to a group of 
bioinformatics types who were all very happy to know about it.....