Re: parallel: Input is tty

[Rob Syme]

You're right, it was from moreutils. Very excited by the sound of --pipe. I'll keep a close eye on this list, thanks :)
-r

On 28 Jan 2011 17:48, "Ole Tange" <tange@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Rob Syme <rob.syme@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [rob@remote]$ parallel -j 6 example_script.py -- *.fasta
>
> You were probably running the parallel command from moreutils which is
> not GNU Parallel.
>
> To get the background on moreutils/GNU Parallel see
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html
>
> BTW good to see more bioinformaticians. I believe you will like the
> upcoming --pipe option scheduled for next release - it will be able to
> take record delimited files (such as fasta files) and pipe a block of
> records to parallel processes making it possible to process a single
> fasta file in parallel. You just need to make sure your program can
> read from a pipe.
>
> /Ole