Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports --joblog parsing fails for commands containing line feeds.

[Ole Tange]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Coby Viner <address@hidden> wrote:

> --joblog parsing fails for commands containing line feeds.

This works for me:

parallel --jl /tmp/myjl 'echo "command
with
newlines"' ::: a b c

parallel --resume --jl /tmp/myjl 'echo "command
with
newlines"' ::: a b c d e

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> Description:
>
> I am running GNU Parallel from a bash script in which it is convenient for
> me to use commands that span over multiple lines (of which the above is a
> simple contrived example). It would be nice if --joblog parsing were able to
> ignore lines not starting with a sequence number.

Consider using bash functions instead.
https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#EXAMPLE:-Calling-Bash-functions


/Ole