Re: Parallel script with variable name

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Ms. Fenderson,

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:20:13 +1030
Lindsey Fenderson <wildlifer1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm very new to using GNU parallel, so this is probably a simple question
> but I haven't been able to figure out from the resources online how to do
> the following:
> 
> I have a very long script that I am running over multiple input files and I
> would like to parallelize this process. So for instance,
> 
> ls *filepattern* | parallel script.sh
> 
> seems to work as far as iterating over the files. However, I need to use
> the filename as a variable. So in my serial script I was doing this:
> 
> ls *filepattern* > filenames
> while read filenames; do
>   lots_of_stuff_$filenames
> done < filenames
> 
> So how can I get gnu parallel to incorporate the current filename it is
> using as a variable in my script?
> 

See:

* https://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface#Arguments

Regards,

        Shlomi

> Thanks



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