Installing a 2014 version of parallel fixed the issue. As time permits I
will try newer versions to see where it breaks on Cygwin. Thanks for
your help Diomidis. Are you running a Windows PC from 2014?!?!? ;)
Geoff
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 9:31 PM Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr
<mailto:dds@aueb.gr>> wrote:
Ah, good point, uname! I obtained the version I reported from the
cygwin.exe file properties. The version I get through uname is
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 hostname 3.0.6(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-06 16:18 x86_64 Cygwin
On 05-Mar-20 19:58, Geoffrey Cleaves wrote:
> Maybe the problem is that I'm using a *newer* version?
>
> $ uname
> CYGWIN_NT-10.0
>
> I'll try your version and report back.
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:47 PM Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr
<mailto:dds@aueb.gr>
> <mailto:dds@aueb.gr <mailto:dds@aueb.gr>>> wrote:
>
> I cannot replicate the problem in Cygwin 0.8.1
>
> $ parallel -k echo ::: A B C
> parallel: Warning: $SHELL not set. Using /bin/sh.
> A
> B
> C
> $ SHELL=/bin/bash parallel -k echo ::: A B C
> A
> B
> C
> $ SHELL=/bin/sh parallel -k echo ::: A B C
> A
> B
> C
>
> Could you be using a non-standard shell or an older version
of Cygwin?
>
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>
> On 05-Mar-20 18:43, Geoffrey Cleaves wrote:
> > Hello, I have been an avid user of parallel on Mac OS and
Linux
> over the
> > last 5 years. But I now find myself using Windows with the
following
> > problem when trying to run parallel in Cygwin.
> >
> > $ parallel -k echo ::: A B C
> > sh: -c: option requires an argument
> > sh: -c: option requires an argument
> > ... never stops
> >
> > $ parallel --version , however, works just fine.
> >
> > Any tips on how to fix this?
>