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Re: typo in bash manual


From: Ryan Cunningham
Subject: Re: typo in bash manual
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 06:30:07 -0800

Apparently I am not reading it wrong. Read my previous e-mail to this list on 
this thread.

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> On Mar 1, 2014, at 8:55 PM, Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-03-01 11:29:03 -0800, Dave Yost wrote:
>> In http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#GNU-Parallel
>> 
>> Where you say
>> ls *.gz | parallel -j+0 "zcat {} | bzip2 >{.}.bz2 && rm {}"
>> This will recompress all files in the current directory with names ending in 
>> .gz using bzip2, running one job per CPU (-j+0) in parallel.
>> 
>> it should be
>> ls *.gz | parallel -j+0 "zcat {} | bzip2 >{.}.bz2 && rm {}"
>> This will recompress all files in the current directory with names ending in 
>> .bz2 using bzip2, running one job per CPU (-j+0) in parallel.
> 
> I think you're reading this wrong. "With" in this context is a
> limitation of the glob selection, not the output filename.



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