Released as 20140822 ('Williams').

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+20140822
+
+* GNU Parallel now uses the same shell it was started from as the
+  command shell for local jobs. So if GNU Parallel is started from
+  tcsh it will use tcsh as its shell even if the login $SHELL is
+  different. For remote jobs the login $SHELL will be used.
+
+* The whole current environment in bash can be copied by using a shell
+  wrapper function (Search manual for env_parallel).
+
+* --plus adds the replacement strings {+/} {+.} {+..} {+...} {..}
+  {...} {/..} {/...}. The idea being that '+foo' matches the opposite
+  of 'foo' and {} = {+/}/{/} = {.}.{+.} = {+/}/{/.}.{+.} = {..}.{+..}
+  = {+/}/{/..}.{+..} = {...}.{+...} = {+/}/{/...}.{+...}
+
+* GNU Parallel now deals correctly with the combination
+  rsync-3.1.X-client and rsync-2.5.7-server
+
+* GNU Parallel was cited in: A Web Service for Scholarly Big Data
+  Information Extraction
+  http://patshih.ist.psu.edu/publications/Williams-CiteSeerExtractor-ICWS14.pdf
+
+* Comparison of the speed of different GNU Parallel versions:
+  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2014-08/msg00030.html
+
+* GNU Parallel was covered in the webcast 2014-08-20: Data Science at
+  the Command Line http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3115
+
+* Distributed processing with GNU parallel
+  http://kazjote.eu/2014/08/11/distributed-processing-with-gnu-parallel
+
+* A Peek into GNU Parallel
+  http://blog.dataweave.in/post/94238943763/a-peek-into-gnu-parallel
+
+* Сборка GNU parallel для CentOS/RHEL
+  http://www.stableit.ru/2014/07/gnu-parallel-centosrhel.html
+
+* Bug fixes and man page updates.
+
+
 20140722
 
 * {= perl expression =} can be used as replacement string. The

README

@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ document.
 
 Full installation of GNU Parallel is as simple as:
 
-    wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/parallel-20140815.tar.bz2
+    wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/parallel-20140822.tar.bz2
-    bzip2 -dc parallel-20140815.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
+    bzip2 -dc parallel-20140822.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
-    cd parallel-20140815
+    cd parallel-20140822
     ./configure && make && make install
 
 
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ Full installation of GNU Parallel is as simple as:
 If you are not root you can add ~/bin to your path and install in
 ~/bin and ~/share:
 
-    wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/parallel-20140815.tar.bz2
+    wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/parallel-20140822.tar.bz2
-    bzip2 -dc parallel-20140815.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
+    bzip2 -dc parallel-20140822.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
-    cd parallel-20140815
+    cd parallel-20140822
     ./configure --prefix=$HOME && make && make install
 
 Or if your system lacks 'make' you can simply copy src/parallel

configure

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
-# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for parallel 20140815.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for parallel 20140822.
 #
 # Report bugs to <bug-parallel@gnu.org>.
 #
@@ -579,8 +579,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS=
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='parallel'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='parallel'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='20140815'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='20140822'
-PACKAGE_STRING='parallel 20140815'
+PACKAGE_STRING='parallel 20140822'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='bug-parallel@gnu.org'
 PACKAGE_URL=''
 
@@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@ 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 20140815 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures parallel 20140822 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of parallel 20140815:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of parallel 20140822:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-parallel configure 20140815
+parallel configure 20140822
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69
 
 Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ 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 20140815, which was
+It was created by parallel $as_me 20140822, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0 $@
@@ -2225,7 +2225,7 @@ fi
 
 # Define the identity of the package.
  PACKAGE='parallel'
- VERSION='20140815'
+ VERSION='20140822'
 
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
@@ -2867,7 +2867,7 @@ 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 20140815, which was
+This file was extended by parallel $as_me 20140822, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -2929,7 +2929,7 @@ _ACEOF
 cat >>$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 20140815
+parallel config.status 20140822
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69,
   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"
 

configure.ac

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([parallel], [20140815], [bug-parallel@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([parallel], [20140822], [bug-parallel@gnu.org])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([

doc/release_new_version

@@ -234,10 +234,12 @@ New in this release:
 
 * The whole current environment in bash can be copied by using a shell wrapper function (Search manual for env_parallel).
 
-* GNU Parallel was cited in: A Web Service for Scholarly Big Data Information Extraction http://patshih.ist.psu.edu/publications/Williams-CiteSeerExtractor-ICWS14.pdf
-
 * --plus adds the replacement strings {+/} {+.} {+..} {+...} {..} {...} {/..} {/...}. The idea being that '+foo' matches the opposite of 'foo' and {} = {+/}/{/} = {.}.{+.} = {+/}/{/.}.{+.} = {..}.{+..} = {+/}/{/..}.{+..} = {...}.{+...} = {+/}/{/...}.{+...}
 
+* GNU Parallel now deals correctly with the combination rsync-3.1.X-client and rsync-2.5.7-server
+
+* GNU Parallel was cited in: A Web Service for Scholarly Big Data Information Extraction http://patshih.ist.psu.edu/publications/Williams-CiteSeerExtractor-ICWS14.pdf
+
 * Comparison of the speed of different GNU Parallel versions: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2014-08/msg00030.html
 
 * GNU Parallel was covered in the webcast 2014-08-20: Data Science at the Command Line http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3115

packager/obs/home:tange/parallel/parallel.spec

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 Summary:	Shell tool for executing jobs in parallel
 Name: 		parallel
-Version: 	20140722
+Version: 	20140822
 Release: 	1
 License: 	GPL
 Group: 		Productivity/File utilities
 URL: 		ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel
-Source0: 	%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
+Source0: 	%{name}_%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildArch:	noarch
 BuildArchitectures: noarch
 BuildRoot: 	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-buildroot

src/niceload

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 use strict;
 use Getopt::Long;
 $Global::progname="niceload";
-$Global::version = 20140815;
+$Global::version = 20140822;
 Getopt::Long::Configure("bundling","require_order");
 get_options_from_array(\@ARGV) || die_usage();
 if($opt::version) {

src/parallel

@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ sub get_options_from_array {
 sub parse_options {
     # Returns: N/A
     # Defaults:
-    $Global::version = 20140815;
+    $Global::version = 20140822;
     $Global::progname = 'parallel';
     $Global::infinity = 2**31;
     $Global::debug = 0;

src/parallel.pod

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ B<exportf> to export and to set $SHELL to bash:
 
 The command cannot contain the character \257 (macron: ¯).
 
-=item B<{}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{}> (alpha testing)
 
 Input line. This replacement string will be replaced by a full line
 read from the input source. The input source is normally stdin
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ If the command line contains no replacement strings then B<{}> will be
 appended to the command line.
 
 
-=item B<{.}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{.}> (alpha testing)
 
 Input line without extension. This replacement string will be replaced
 by the input with the extension removed. If the input line contains
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ The replacement string B<{.}> can be changed with B<--er>.
 To understand replacement strings see B<{}>.
 
 
-=item B<{/}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{/}> (alpha testing)
 
 Basename of input line. This replacement string will be replaced by
 the input with the directory part removed.
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ B<--basenamereplace>.
 To understand replacement strings see B<{}>.
 
 
-=item B<{//}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{//}> (alpha testing)
 
 Dirname of input line. This replacement string will be replaced by the
 dir of the input line. See B<dirname>(1).
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ B<--dirnamereplace>.
 To understand replacement strings see B<{}>.
 
 
-=item B<{/.}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{/.}> (alpha testing)
 
 Basename of input line without extension. This replacement string will
 be replaced by the input with the directory and extension part
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ B<--basenameextensionreplace>.
 To understand replacement strings see B<{}>.
 
 
-=item B<{#}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{#}> (alpha testing)
 
 Sequence number of the job to run. This replacement string will be
 replaced by the sequence number of the job being run. It contains the
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ The replacement string B<{#}> can be changed with B<--seqreplace>.
 To understand replacement strings see B<{}>.
 
 
-=item B<{%}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{%}> (alpha testing)
 
 Job slot number. This replacement string will be replaced by the job's
 slot number between 1 and number of jobs to run in parallel. There
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ The replacement string B<{%}> can be changed with B<--slotreplace>.
 To understand replacement strings see B<{}>.
 
 
-=item B<{>I<n>B<}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{>I<n>B<}> (alpha testing)
 
 Argument from input source I<n> or the I<n>'th argument. This
 positional replacement string will be replaced by the input from input
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ I<n>'th last argument.
 To understand replacement strings see B<{}>.
 
 
-=item B<{>I<n>.B<}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{>I<n>.B<}> (alpha testing)
 
 Argument from input source I<n> or the I<n>'th argument without
 extension. It is a combination of B<{>I<n>B<}> and B<{.}>.
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ extension removed.
 To understand positional replacement strings see B<{>I<n>B<}>.
 
 
-=item B<{>I<n>/B<}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{>I<n>/B<}> (alpha testing)
 
 Basename of argument from input source I<n> or the I<n>'th argument.
 It is a combination of B<{>I<n>B<}> and B<{/}>.
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ directory (if any) removed.
 To understand positional replacement strings see B<{>I<n>B<}>.
 
 
-=item B<{>I<n>//B<}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{>I<n>//B<}> (alpha testing)
 
 Dirname of argument from input source I<n> or the I<n>'th argument.
 It is a combination of B<{>I<n>B<}> and B<{//}>.
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ the I<n>'th argument (when used with B<-N>). See B<dirname>(1).
 To understand positional replacement strings see B<{>I<n>B<}>.
 
 
-=item B<{>I<n>/.B<}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{>I<n>/.B<}> (alpha testing)
 
 Basename of argument from input source I<n> or the I<n>'th argument
 without extension.  It is a combination of B<{>I<n>B<}>, B<{/}>, and
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ directory (if any) and extension removed.
 To understand positional replacement strings see B<{>I<n>B<}>.
 
 
-=item B<{=>I<perl expression>B<=}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{=>I<perl expression>B<=}> (alpha testing)
 
 Replace with calculated I<perl expression>. B<$_> will contain the
 same as B<{}>. After evaluating I<perl expression> B<$_> will be used
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ The B<{=>I<perl expression>B<=}> must be given as a single string.
 See also: B<--rpl> B<--parens>
 
 
-=item B<{=>I<n> I<perl expression>B<=}> (beta testing)
+=item B<{=>I<n> I<perl expression>B<=}> (alpha testing)
 
 Positional equivalent to B<{= perl expression =}>. To understand
 positional replacement strings see B<{>I<n>B<}>.
@@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ Use NUL as delimiter.  Normally input lines will end in \n
 for processing arguments that may contain \n (newline).
 
 
-=item B<--arg-file> I<input-file> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--arg-file> I<input-file> (beta testing)
 
-=item B<-a> I<input-file> (alpha testing)
+=item B<-a> I<input-file> (beta testing)
 
 Use I<input-file> as input source. If you use this option, stdin
 (standard input) is given to the first process run.  Otherwise, stdin
@@ -370,9 +370,9 @@ It is compatible with B<zenity>:
 seq 1000 | parallel -j30 --bar '(echo {};sleep 0.1)' 2> >(zenity --progress --auto-kill) | wc
 
 
-=item B<--basefile> I<file>
+=item B<--basefile> I<file> (alpha testing)
 
-=item B<--bf> I<file>
+=item B<--bf> I<file> (alpha testing)
 
 I<file> will be transferred to each sshlogin before a jobs is
 started. It will be removed if B<--cleanup> is active. The file may be
@@ -413,9 +413,9 @@ Print the BibTeX entry for GNU B<parallel> and disable citation
 notice.
 
 
-=item B<--block> I<size> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--block> I<size> (beta testing)
 
-=item B<--block-size> I<size> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--block-size> I<size> (beta testing)
 
 Size of block in bytes. The size can be postfixed with K, M, G, T, P,
 k, m, g, t, or p which would multiply the size with 1024, 1048576,
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ Use the replacement string I<replace-str> instead of B<{//}> for
 dirname of input line.
 
 
-=item B<-E> I<eof-str>
+=item B<-E> I<eof-str> (alpha testing)
 
 Set the end of file string to eof-str.  If the end of file string
 occurs as a line of input, the rest of the input is ignored.  If
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ If I<eof-str> is omitted, there is no end of file string.  If neither
 B<-E> nor B<-e> is used, no end of file string is used.
 
 
-=item B<--env> I<var>
+=item B<--env> I<var> (alpha testing)
 
 Copy environment variable I<var>. This will copy I<var> to the
 environment that the command is run in. This is especially useful for
@@ -588,10 +588,23 @@ cannot be exported:
     parallel --env my_importer \
       'my_importer; echo "{}" "${indexed[{}]}" "${assoc[${indexed[{}]}]}"' ::: "${!indexed[@]}"
 
+To copy the full environment use this function:
+
+    env_parallel() {
+      export parallel_bash_environment='() {
+        '"$(echo "shopt -s expand_aliases 2>/dev/null"; alias;typeset -p | grep -vFf <(readonly; echo GROUPS; echo FUNCNAME; echo DIRSTACK; echo _; echo PIPESTATUS; echo USERNAME) | grep -v BASH_;typeset -f)"'
+      }'
+      # Run as: env_parallel parallel_bash_environment "2>/dev/null;" ...
+      `which parallel` "$@"
+      unset parallel_bash_environment
+    }
+    # call as:
+    env_parallel ...
+
 See also: B<--record-env>.
 
 
-=item B<--eta> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--eta> (beta testing)
 
 Show the estimated number of seconds before finishing. This forces GNU
 B<parallel> to read all jobs before starting to find the number of
@@ -661,9 +674,9 @@ See also: B<--line-buffer> B<--ungroup>
 Print a summary of the options to GNU B<parallel> and exit.
 
 
-=item B<--halt-on-error> I<val> (beta testing)
+=item B<--halt-on-error> I<val> (alpha testing)
 
-=item B<--halt> I<val> (beta testing)
+=item B<--halt> I<val> (alpha testing)
 
 How should GNU B<parallel> terminate if one of more jobs fail?
 
@@ -713,9 +726,9 @@ If I<regexp> is a number, it will match that many lines.
 Use the replacement string I<replace-str> instead of {}.
 
 
-=item B<--replace>[=I<replace-str>]
+=item B<--replace>[=I<replace-str>] (alpha testing)
 
-=item B<-i>[I<replace-str>]
+=item B<-i>[I<replace-str>] (alpha testing)
 
 This option is a synonym for B<-I>I<replace-str> if I<replace-str> is
 specified, and for B<-I>{} otherwise.  This option is deprecated;
@@ -784,9 +797,8 @@ B<--use-cpus-instead-of-cores>.
 
 =item B<-P> I<N>% (alpha testing)
 
-Multiply N% with the number of CPU cores.  Run this many jobs in parallel.
+Multiply N% with the number of CPU cores.  Run this many jobs in
-If the evaluated number is less than 1 then 1 will be used.  See also
+parallel. See also B<--use-cpus-instead-of-cores>.
-B<--use-cpus-instead-of-cores>.
 
 
 =item B<--jobs> I<procfile>
@@ -875,9 +887,9 @@ the same syntax as B<--jobs>, so I<100%> for one per CPU is a valid
 setting. Only difference is 0 which is interpreted as 0.01.
 
 
-=item B<--controlmaster>
+=item B<--controlmaster> (alpha testing)
 
-=item B<-M>
+=item B<-M> (alpha testing)
 
 Use ssh's ControlMaster to make ssh connections faster. Useful if jobs
 run remote and are very fast to run. This is disabled for sshlogins
@@ -987,7 +999,7 @@ B<--files> is often used with B<--pipe>.
 See also: B<--recstart>, B<--recend>, B<--fifo>, B<--cat>, B<--pipepart>.
 
 
-=item B<--pipepart> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--pipepart> (beta testing)
 
 Pipe parts of a physical file. B<--pipepart> works similar to
 B<--pipe>, but is much faster. It has a few limitations:
@@ -1118,7 +1130,7 @@ from the terminal.  Only run the command line if the response starts
 with 'y' or 'Y'.  Implies B<-t>.
 
 
-=item B<--parens> I<parensstring> (beta testing)
+=item B<--parens> I<parensstring>
 
 Use to define start and end parenthesis for B<{= perl expression =}>. The
 left and the right parenthesis can be multiple characters and are
@@ -1308,7 +1320,7 @@ useful if some jobs fail for no apparent reason (such as network
 failure).
 
 
-=item B<--return> I<filename>
+=item B<--return> I<filename> (alpha testing)
 
 Transfer files from remote computers. B<--return> is used with
 B<--sshlogin> when the arguments are files on the remote computers. When
@@ -1356,7 +1368,7 @@ B<--keep-order> will not work with B<--round-robin> as it is
 impossible to track which input block corresponds to which output.
 
 
-=item B<--rpl> 'I<tag> I<perl expression>' (beta testing)
+=item B<--rpl> 'I<tag> I<perl expression>' (alpha testing)
 
 Use I<tag> as a replacement string for I<perl expression>. This makes
 it possible to define your own replacement strings. GNU B<parallel>'s
@@ -1461,9 +1473,9 @@ Use the replacement string I<replace-str> instead of B<{#}> for
 job sequence number.
 
 
-=item B<--shebang> (beta testing)
+=item B<--shebang>
 
-=item B<--hashbang> (beta testing)
+=item B<--hashbang>
 
 GNU B<parallel> can be called as a shebang (#!) command as the first
 line of a script. The content of the file will be treated as
@@ -1488,7 +1500,7 @@ On FreeBSD B<env> is needed:
   freenetproject.org
 
 
-=item B<--shebang-wrap> (beta testing)
+=item B<--shebang-wrap>
 
 GNU B<parallel> can parallelize scripts by wrapping the shebang
 line. If the program can be run like this:
@@ -1537,9 +1549,9 @@ I<secs> seconds after starting each ssh. I<secs> can be less than 1
 seconds.
 
 
-=item B<-S> I<[ncpu/]sshlogin[,[ncpu/]sshlogin[,...]]>
+=item B<-S> I<[ncpu/]sshlogin[,[ncpu/]sshlogin[,...]]> (alpha testing)
 
-=item B<--sshlogin> I<[ncpu/]sshlogin[,[ncpu/]sshlogin[,...]]>
+=item B<--sshlogin> I<[ncpu/]sshlogin[,[ncpu/]sshlogin[,...]]> (alpha testing)
 
 Distribute jobs to remote computers. The jobs will be run on a list of
 remote computers.  GNU B<parallel> will determine the number of CPU
@@ -1575,9 +1587,9 @@ B<--sshlogin> is often used with B<--transfer>, B<--return>,
 B<--cleanup>, and B<--trc>.
 
 
-=item B<--sshloginfile> I<filename>
+=item B<--sshloginfile> I<filename> (alpha testing)
 
-=item B<--slf> I<filename>
+=item B<--slf> I<filename> (alpha testing)
 
 File with sshlogins. The file consists of sshlogins on separate
 lines. Empty lines and lines starting with '#' are ignored. Example:
@@ -1662,7 +1674,7 @@ different dir for the files. Setting B<--tmpdir> is equivalent to
 setting $TMPDIR.
 
 
-=item B<--tmux> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--tmux> (beta testing)
 
 Use B<tmux> for output. Start a B<tmux> session and run each job in a
 window in that session. No other output will be produced.
@@ -1688,7 +1700,7 @@ Print the job to be run on stderr (standard error).
 See also B<-v>, B<-p>.
 
 
-=item B<--transfer>
+=item B<--transfer> (alpha testing)
 
 Transfer files to remote computers. B<--transfer> is used with
 B<--sshlogin> when the arguments are files and should be transferred

src/sql

@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ $Global::Initfile && unlink $Global::Initfile;
 exit ($err);
 
 sub parse_options {
-    $Global::version = 20140815;
+    $Global::version = 20140822;
     $Global::progname = 'sql';
 
     # This must be done first as this may exec myself