Re: How to get back a file which filename contains whitespace

[Ole Tange]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Maciej Pilichowski
<pilichowski.maciej@gmail.com> wrote:

>  The only problem I have so far is with receiving the processed files back.
> Consider such option:
>
> --trc "output/Done {}"

You users are a crazy bunch :-)

Never would I have imagined that you would add a special charater
(such as space) to the --return filename - at most I imagined you
would have the special character in {}.

> as the result I get error that file
> output/Done
>
> does not exist.
>
>  How I can pass the filename to parallel for return, when (as above) it
> contains a whitespace?
>
>  From what I heard at Stack Overflow it could be a bug in Parallel, I am not
> sure though.

The bug is fixed in the current git version.

$ rm /tmp/foo*
$ ls /tmp/foo*
ls: cannot access /tmp/foo*: No such file or directory
$ touch /tmp/foo
$ parallel -S .. --trc '{} bar' echo '>{}\ bar' ::: /tmp/foo
$ ls /tmp/foo*
/tmp/foo  /tmp/foo bar

/Ole