Released as 20101202.

Debian packaging rolled back.

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+20101202
+
+* Implemented {/} for the input line with the path removed (basename).
+
+* Implemented {/.} for the input line with extension and path removed
+  (basename).
+
+* Output from --progress is now sent to standard error instead of
+  standard output.
+
+* --eta was broken and counted down from 0. Now fixed.
+
+* Standard output and standard error are flushed after every job so if
+  standard output does not end with a newline it will still be grouped
+  with the rest of standard output.
+
+* --command, -c, --file, and -f are now removed as options. They were
+  never used in practice.
+
+* GetOptionsFromArray rewritten to work with old Perl libraries.
+
+* The file COPYING now contains the GNU General Public License 3
+
+* Major rewrite to make the code more object oriented and easier to
+  maintain in the future.
+
 20101113
 
 * Using -j myfile the number of jobs can be changed while GNU Parallel

configure

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.67 for parallel 20101122.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.67 for parallel 20101202.
 #
 # Report bugs to <bug-parallel@gnu.org>.
 #
@@ -551,8 +551,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS=
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='parallel'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='parallel'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='20101122'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='20101202'
-PACKAGE_STRING='parallel 20101122'
+PACKAGE_STRING='parallel 20101202'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='bug-parallel@gnu.org'
 PACKAGE_URL=''
 
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ if test "$ac_init_help" = "long"; then
   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
   cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures parallel 20101122 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures parallel 20101202 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of parallel 20101122:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of parallel 20101202:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-parallel configure 20101122
+parallel configure 20101202
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.67
 
 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ cat >config.log <<_ACEOF
 This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
 running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
-It was created by parallel $as_me 20101122, which was
+It was created by parallel $as_me 20101202, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.67.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0 $@
@@ -2133,7 +2133,7 @@ fi
 
 # Define the identity of the package.
  PACKAGE='parallel'
- VERSION='20101122'
+ VERSION='20101202'
 
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
@@ -2684,7 +2684,7 @@ cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 # report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their
 # values after options handling.
 ac_log="
-This file was extended by parallel $as_me 20101122, which was
+This file was extended by parallel $as_me 20101202, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.67.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -2746,7 +2746,7 @@ _ACEOF
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
 ac_cs_config="`$as_echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/^ //; s/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`"
 ac_cs_version="\\
-parallel config.status 20101122
+parallel config.status 20101202
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.67,
   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"
 

configure.ac

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([parallel], [20101122], [bug-parallel@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([parallel], [20101202], [bug-parallel@gnu.org])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([

doc/promo

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+=head1 search terms
+
+run commands in parallel
+
+Parallel shell loops
+
+multi threading in bash xargs
+
+# TAGS: parallel | parallel processing | multicore | multiprocessor | Clustering/Distributed Networks
+# job control | multiple jobs | parallelization | text processing | cluster | filters
+# Clustering Tools | Command Line Tools | Utilities | System Administration
+# Bash parallel
+
+GNU parallel execution shell bash script simultaneous concurrent linux
+scripting run xargs ppss code.google.com/p/ppss/
+
+@vvuksan @ychaker @ncb000gt 
+xargs can lead to nasty surprises caused by the separator problem
+http://nd.gd/0t GNU Parallel http://nd.gd/0s may be better.
+
+Comments:
+
+http://nd.gd/0u http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
+http://nd.gd/0s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ
+http://nd.gd/0t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#The_separator_problem
+http://nd.gd/3k http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_between_xargs_and_gnu_parallel
+
+Watch the intro video for GNU Parallel: http://nd.gd/0s
+
+If your input file names are generated by users, you need to deal with
+surprising file names containing space, ', or " in the filename. 
+
+xargs can give nasty surprises due to the separator problem
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#The_separator_problem
+http://nd.gd/0t
+
+GNU Parallel http://nd.gd/0s may be better.
+
+@jaylyerly @stevenf xargs will bite you if file names contain
+space http://nd.gd/0t. Use GNU Parallel instead: http://nd.gd/0s
+
+Please repay by spreading the word about GNU Parallel to your
+contacts/blog/facebook/linkedin/mailing lists/user group
+
+Your use of xargs can lead to nasty surprises because of the separator
+problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs#The_separator_problem
+
+GNU Parallel http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ does not have that
+problem.
+
+Watch the intro video for GNU Parallel:
+http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ
+
+If you have GNU Parallel http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ installed you can do this:
+
+Watch the intro video for GNU Parallel to learn more:
+http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ
+
+
+GNU Parallel also makes it possible to run small scripts. Try this:
+
+ls *.zip | parallel ‘mkdir {.}; cd {.}; unzip ../{}’
+
+= Other people says =
+
+fawxtin‎: Using GNU Parallel to run things simultaneously, neat! ;)
+cowsandmilk‎: if you haven't quit xargs for gnu parallel yet, you're really missing out
+afader‎: GNU Parallel is cool
+ecyrd‎: Okay, why hasn't anyone told me of GNU parallel before?
+cashion‎: very cool! Did not know about GNU parallel.
+toorghezi‎: Writing shell scripts? You should know about GNU Parallel!
+Racecar564 : GNU Parallel rocks!
+arclight : Very nice! I especially like the {} -> {.}.bz2 syntax.
+nwp8861 : I surprised that it's so comfortable!

doc/release_new_version

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ make dist-bzip2
 
 == Test the package ==
 
+YYYYMMDD=`yyyymmdd`
 cp parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2 /tmp
 cd /tmp
 tar xjvf parallel-$YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
@@ -125,77 +126,36 @@ cc:Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>, Sandro Cazzaniga <kharec@mandriva.org>,
    Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>, Jonathan Palardy <jonathan.palardy@gmail.com>,
    Koen Vervloesem <koen@vervloesem.eu>, R. Tyler Croy <tyler@monkeypox.org>
 
-Subject: GNU Parallel 20101113 released
+Subject: GNU Parallel 20101202 released
 
-GNU Parallel 20101113 has been released. It is available for
+GNU Parallel 20101202 has been released. It is available for
 download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/
 
 New in this release:
 
-* Using -j myfile the number of jobs can be changed while GNU Parallel
+* Implemented {/} for the input line with the path removed (basename).
-  is running simply by changing the content of myfile.
 
-* Implemented --profile to use different .parallel/config for
+* Implemented {/.} for the input line with extension and path removed
-  different situations.
+  (basename).
 
-* Ugly newlines in $PARALLEL and .parallel/config are no longer
+* Output from --progress is now sent to standard error instead of
-  needed.  Instead you have to use \ in front of special shell
+  standard output.
-  characters.
 
-* --workdir puts the files transferred to remote machines in a
+* --eta was broken and counted down from 0. Now fixed.
-  specified directory.
 
-* $PARALLEL_PID is set to the process id of GNU Parallel.
+* Standard output and standard error are flushed after every job so if
+  standard output does not end with a newline it will still be grouped
+  with the rest of standard output.
 
-* $PARALLEL_SEQ is set to the sequence number of the job.
+* --command, -c, --file, and -f are now removed as options. They were
+  never used in practice.
 
-* -v now only shows the command to run. Use -v -v to show the
+* GetOptionsFromArray rewritten to work with old Perl libraries.
-   ssh/rsync wrapping.
 
-* Slow spawning error is now only a warning.
+* The file COPYING now contains the GNU General Public License 3
-
-* If stdin is a tty and input is read from stdin you now get a
-  warning.
-
-* GNU sql: \n and \x0a in arguments is replaced with newline.
-
-* Patch for Debian package and spelling mistakes. Thanks to Rogério
-  Brito <rbrito at ime dot usp dot br>
-
-* Mac OS X Homebrew package. Thanks to Jonathan Palardy <jonathan dot
-  palardy at gmail dot com>
-
-* FreeBSD port. Thanks to Chris Howey <howeyc at gmail dot com>
-
-* Pardus package. Thanks to Fethican Coşkuner
-  <fethicanc at gmail dot com>
-
-* First review in Chinese. Thanks to 曾義峰:
-  http://antbsd.twbbs.org/~ant/wordpress/?p=2876
-
-* First review in print:
-  http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2010 Nov 2010
-
-* First review in Spanish:
-  http://www.muylinux.com/2010/10/18/gnu-parallel-computacion-paralela-a-golpe-de-comando
-
-* First review in Dutch thanks to Koen Vervloesem <koen at vervloesem
-  dot eu>:
-  http://techworld.nl/technologie/33493/gebruik-al-je-processorkernen-met-gnu-parallel.html
-
-* Blog review thanks to R. Tyler Croy <tyler at monkeypox dot org>:
-  http://unethicalblogger.com/posts/2010/11/gnuparallel_changed_my_life
-
-* 5000 views of the intro video:
-  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ
-
-* As usual a bunch of bugfixes and more usage examples in the man
-  page.
-
-* GNU Parallel was presented at FSCONS 2010-11-07:
-  http://www.fscons.org/fs/gnu-parallel Hopefully the
-  video will be online soon.
 
+* Major rewrite to make the code more object oriented and easier to
+  maintain in the future.
 
 = About GNU Parallel =
 

packager/debian/README

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 make
+Edit 20100906-2 to the version number

packager/debian/debian-template/changelog

@@ -1,46 +1,3 @@
-parallel (20100922-4) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * Change package to be non-native.
-  * Move to format "3.0 (quilt)".
-  * debian/compat:
-    + update to 7.
-  * debian/rules:
-    + don't configure the package in the clean target.
-    + create a configure (and configure-stamp) target.
-  * debian/control:
-    + update debhelper dependency to >= 7.
-    + add dh-autoreconf to build-dependency.
-    + indicate that the package conforms to Policy 3.9.1.
-    + set myself as maintainer and Ole as uploader.
-  * debian/rules:
-    + use dh(7) style file with autoreconf add-on.
-  * debian/doc-base:
-    + properly register the documentation with doc-base.
-  * debian/patches:
-    + include some patches to fix spelling errors detected by lintian.
-  * debian/dirs:
-    + remove, not needed.
-
- -- Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>  Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:44:37 -0200
-
-parallel (20100922-3) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * New upstream version - 3rd try
-
- -- Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk>  Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:15:05 +0200
-
-parallel (20100922-2) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * New upstream version
-
- -- Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk>  Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:13:53 +0200
-
-parallel (20100922-1) unstable; urgency=low
-
-  * New upstream version
-
- -- Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk>  Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:12:22 +0200
-
 parallel (20100906-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream version

packager/debian/debian-template/compat

@@ -1 +1 @@
-7
+5

packager/debian/debian-template/control

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 Source: parallel
 Section: utils
 Priority: extra
-Maintainer: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
+Maintainer: Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk>
-Uploaders: Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5)
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), dh-autoreconf
+Standards-Version: 3.8.3
-Standards-Version: 3.9.1
 Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
 
 Package: parallel

packager/debian/debian-template/copyright

@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ License:
 
 The Debian packaging is:
 
-    Copyright © 2010 Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk>
+    Copyright (C) 2010 Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk>
-    Copyright © 2010 Rogério Theodoro de Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
 
 and is licensed under the GPL version 3, 
 see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

packager/debian/debian-template/dirs

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+usr/bin
+

packager/debian/debian-template/doc-base

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-Document: parallel
-Title: Manual of GNU parallel
-Author: Ole Tange
-Abstract: This manual describes the use of GNU parallel,
- provides an introduction to the subject and also presents
- comparisons against similar utilities.
-Section: System/Administration
-
-Format: HTML
-Index: /usr/share/doc/parallel/parallel.html
-Files: /usr/share/doc/parallel/*.html

packager/debian/debian-template/files

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+parallel_20100906-6_all.deb utils extra

packager/debian/debian-template/parallel.debhelper.log

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+dh_prep
+dh_installdirs
+dh_installchangelogs
+dh_installdocs
+dh_installexamples
+dh_installman
+dh_link
+dh_compress
+dh_fixperms
+dh_installdeb
+dh_gencontrol
+dh_md5sums
+dh_builddeb

packager/debian/debian-template/parallel.substvars

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+misc:Depends=

packager/debian/debian-template/patches/01-fix-spelling.patch

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-Description: Fix spelling errors in some manpages
-Author: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
-Forwarded: no
-Last-Update: 2010-10-24
-
---- a/src/parallel
-+++ b/src/parallel
-@@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@
- 
- =head1 EXAMPLE: Group output lines
- 
--When runnning jobs that output data, you often do not want the output
-+When running jobs that output data, you often do not want the output
- of multiple jobs to run together. GNU B<parallel> defaults to grouping the
- output of each job, so the output is printed when the job finishes. If
- you want the output to be printed while the job is running you can use
-@@ -1311,12 +1311,12 @@
- B<parallel -a table_file.tsv --trim n --colsep '\t' cmd -o {2} -i {1}>
- 
- 
--=head1 EXAMPLE: Working as cat | sh. Ressource inexpensive jobs and evaluation
-+=head1 EXAMPLE: Working as cat | sh. Resource inexpensive jobs and evaluation
- 
- GNU B<parallel> can work similar to B<cat | sh>.
- 
--A ressource inexpensive job is a job that takes very little CPU, disk
--I/O and network I/O. Ping is an example of a ressource inexpensive
-+A resource inexpensive job is a job that takes very little CPU, disk
-+I/O and network I/O. Ping is an example of a resource inexpensive
- job. wget is too - if the webpages are small.
- 
- The content of the file jobs_to_run:
-@@ -2976,7 +2976,7 @@
- # Number of parallel processes to run
- 
- sub compute_number_of_processes {
--    # Number of processes wanted and limited by system ressources
-+    # Number of processes wanted and limited by system resources
-     # Returns:
-     #   Number of processes
-     my $opt_P = shift;
---- a/src/sql
-+++ b/src/sql
-@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
- 
- =item B<-s> I<string>
- 
--Field separator. Use I<string> as seperator between columns.
-+Field separator. Use I<string> as separator between columns.
- 
- 
- =item B<--skip-first-line>

packager/debian/debian-template/patches/series

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-01-fix-spelling.patch

packager/debian/debian-template/rules

@@ -1,7 +1,64 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
-%:
+# -*- makefile -*-
-	dh $@ --with autoreconf
+# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
+# This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small.
+# As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a
+# dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
+# This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of dh-make.
 
-override_dh_clean:
+# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
-	rm -f src/sem
+#export DH_VERBOSE=1
-	dh_clean
+
+build: build-stamp
+
+build-stamp:
+	dh_testdir
+
+	# Add here commands to compile the package.
+	$(MAKE)
+
+	touch $@
+
+clean: 
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_installdirs
+	rm -f build-stamp
+
+	# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
+	./configure --prefix=/usr
+	$(MAKE) clean
+
+	dh_clean 
+
+install: build
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_prep || dh_clean -k
+	dh_installdirs
+
+	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/parallel.
+	$(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/parallel install
+
+
+# Build architecture-independent files here.
+binary-indep: install
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_installchangelogs 
+	dh_installdocs
+	dh_installexamples
+	dh_installman
+	dh_link
+	dh_compress
+	dh_fixperms
+	dh_installdeb
+	dh_gencontrol
+	dh_md5sums
+	dh_builddeb
+
+# Build architecture-dependent files here.
+binary-arch: install
+
+binary: binary-indep binary-arch
+.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install

packager/debian/debian-template/source/format

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-3.0 (quilt)

src/parallel

@@ -2641,7 +2641,7 @@ sub get_options_from_array {
 sub parse_options {
     # Returns: N/A
     # Defaults:
-    $Global::version = 20101126;
+    $Global::version = 20101202;
     $Global::progname = 'parallel';
     $Global::debug = 0;
     $Global::verbose = 0;

src/sql

@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ $Global::Initfile && unlink $Global::Initfile;
 exit ($err);
 
 sub parse_options {
-    $Global::version = 20101122;
+    $Global::version = 20101202;
     $Global::progname = 'sql';
 
     # This must be done first as this may exec myself