Re: limits on stdout

[Ole Tange]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using parallel -u --results -j 3 <dir> myApp -a {}> /dev/null 2>&1 ::: a1 a2
> a3 a4 appears to be working.  All three stdouts are being written to
> equally.  Thanks. (All three are still running so I haven't confirmed the
> redirect yet...)
>
> It appears to me that one cannot use parameters in the redirect e.g ">
> path/{}.foo".  Is that correct?

No that is not correct. But the path must exist and the > must be quoted:

    mkdir bar
    parallel echo ">" bar/{}.foo ::: 1 2 3

/Ole