Re: [Bug/Regression] --quote sometimes produces a trailing empty argument

[Achim Gratz]

Am 30.12.2018 um 02:12 schrieb Ole Tange:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 8:33 PM Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> > I've updated parallel from 20180222 to 20181122 last week at work and
> > today I ran into a prblem that I could trace to an invocation of sem
> > with --quote that would add a trailing empty argument to the command.
> > The command in this particular case tried to interpret the extra
> > argument as an additional filename to process and dutifully failed.  I'm
> > using --quote quite extensively and it hasn't failed for other
> > invocations, but in these cases the input to parallel or sem is provided
> > by an inline (:::) input.
>
> Yup. It is an issue from the quoting change this summer.
>
> Fixed in [036319dc0].

Thank you.  Can't test it right now, but the change set looks sensible.

--
Achim.

(on the road :-)