Released as 20160222 ('N977GA')

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@
+20160222
+
+* Vote for new community on Superuser, Ask Ubuntu, Unix&Linux
+  http://meta.superuser.com/questions/11127/community-promotion-ads-2016/11225#11225
+  http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14925/community-promotion-ads-2016/15046#15046
+  http://meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3854/community-promotion-ads-2016/3893#3893
+
+* Daily Quick Tip: parallel
+  https://medium.com/@jacaetevha/daily-quick-tip-parallel-8772435f6582
+
+* Downloading a list of URLs
+  http://blog.gypsydave5.com/2016/02/04/xargs-and-curl/
+
+* Using GNU Parallel and ImageMagick for Conversions
+  http://blog.fractalcomic.com/tutorials/using-gnu-parallel-and-imagemagick-for-conversions/
+
+* Running bash commands in parallel
+  http://linuxcommando.blogspot.dk/2016/01/running-bash-commands-in-parallel.html
+
+* parallel processing in PDAL
+  https://smathermather.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/parallel-processing-in-pdal/
+
+* A Million Text Files And A Single Laptop
+  http://randyzwitch.com/gnu-parallel-medium-data/
+
+* 「今日から使い切る」ための GNU Parallelによる並列処理入門
+  http://www.slideshare.net/koji_matsuda/gnu-parallel
+
+* Bug fixes and man page updates.
+
+
 20160122
 
 * --sql DBURL uses DBURL as storage for jobs and output. It does not
@@ -52,21 +83,35 @@
 
 * --transfer is now an alias for --transferfile {}.
 
-* --transferfile works like --transfer, but takes an argument like --return. This makes it possible to combine transferring files with multiple input sources: parallel -S server --tf {1} wc {2} {1} ::: * ::: -l -w -c
+* --transferfile works like --transfer, but takes an argument like
+  --return. This makes it possible to combine transferring files
+  with multiple input sources: parallel -S server --tf {1} wc {2}
+  {1} ::: * ::: -l -w -c
 
-* total_jobs() can now be used in {= =}: parallel echo job {#} of '{= $_=total_jobs() =}' ::: {1..50}
+* total_jobs() can now be used in {= =}: parallel echo job {#} of '{=
+  $_=total_jobs() =}' ::: {1..50}
 
-* GNU Parallel was cited in: Evolution and Learning in Heterogeneous Environments http://research.gold.ac.uk/15078/1/COM_thesis_JonesD_2015.pdf
+* GNU Parallel was cited in: Evolution and Learning in Heterogeneous
+  Environments
+  http://research.gold.ac.uk/15078/1/COM_thesis_JonesD_2015.pdf
 
-* GNU Parallel was cited in: Contrasting genetic architectures of schizophrenia and other complex diseases using fast variance-components analysis http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n12/full/ng.3431.html
+* GNU Parallel was cited in: Contrasting genetic architectures of
+  schizophrenia and other complex diseases using fast
+  variance-components analysis
+  http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n12/full/ng.3431.html
 
-* GNU Parallel was cited in: Efficient Retrieval of Key Material for Inspecting Potentially Malicious Traffic in the Cloud http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~bxb/Papres/2015.1.pdf
+* GNU Parallel was cited in: Efficient Retrieval of Key Material for
+  Inspecting Potentially Malicious Traffic in the Cloud
+  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~bxb/Papres/2015.1.pdf
 
-* GNU Parallel was cited in: Achieving Consistent Doppler Measurements from SDO/HMI Vector Field Inversions http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06500.pdf
+* GNU Parallel was cited in: Achieving Consistent Doppler Measurements
+  from SDO/HMI Vector Field Inversions
+  http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06500.pdf
 
 * Flo uses GNU Parallel: https://github.com/wurmlab/flo
 
-* 使用 GNU parallel 來平行運算http://mutolisp.logdown.com/posts/316959-using-gnu-parallel-to-parallel-computing
+* 使用 GNU parallel 來平行運算
+  http://mutolisp.logdown.com/posts/316959-using-gnu-parallel-to-parallel-computing
 
 * Bug fixes and man page updates.
 

README

@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ document.
 
 Full installation of GNU Parallel is as simple as:
 
-    wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/parallel-20160122.tar.bz2
+    wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/parallel-20160222.tar.bz2
-    bzip2 -dc parallel-20160122.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
+    bzip2 -dc parallel-20160222.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
-    cd parallel-20160122
+    cd parallel-20160222
     ./configure && make && sudo 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-20160122.tar.bz2
+    wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/parallel-20160222.tar.bz2
-    bzip2 -dc parallel-20160122.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
+    bzip2 -dc parallel-20160222.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
-    cd parallel-20160122
+    cd parallel-20160222
     ./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 20160122.
+# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69 for parallel 20160222.
 #
 # Report bugs to <bug-parallel@gnu.org>.
 #
@@ -579,8 +579,8 @@ MAKEFLAGS=
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='parallel'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='parallel'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='20160122'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='20160222'
-PACKAGE_STRING='parallel 20160122'
+PACKAGE_STRING='parallel 20160222'
 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 20160122 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures parallel 20160222 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 20160122:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of parallel 20160222:";;
    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 20160122
+parallel configure 20160222
 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 20160122, which was
+It was created by parallel $as_me 20160222, 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='20160122'
+ VERSION='20160222'
 
 
 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 20160122, which was
+This file was extended by parallel $as_me 20160222, 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 20160122
+parallel config.status 20160222
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69,
   with options \\"\$ac_cs_config\\"
 

configure.ac

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([parallel], [20160122], [bug-parallel@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([parallel], [20160222], [bug-parallel@gnu.org])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([

doc/release_new_version

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Check that documentation is updated (compare to web):
 
-Fixet for 20160122
+Fixet for 20160222
 git diff last-release-commit
 Unmodified beta since last version => production
 Unmodified alpha since last version => beta

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

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary:	Shell tool for executing jobs in parallel
 Name: 		parallel
-Version: 	20160122
+Version: 	20160222
 Release: 	1.1
 License: 	GPL
 Group: 		Productivity/File utilities

src/niceload

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 use strict;
 use Getopt::Long;
 $Global::progname="niceload";
-$Global::version = 20160122;
+$Global::version = 20160222;
 Getopt::Long::Configure("bundling","require_order");
 get_options_from_array(\@ARGV) || die_usage();
 if($opt::version) {

src/parallel

@@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@ sub check_invalid_option_combinations {
 
 sub init_globals {
     # Defaults:
-    $Global::version = 20160123;
+    $Global::version = 20160222;
     $Global::progname = 'parallel';
     $Global::infinity = 2**31;
     $Global::debug = 0;

src/parallel.pod

@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ shell quote a string
 
 =item Z<> B<total_jobs()>
 
-number of jobs in total (beta testing)
+number of jobs in total
 
 =back
 
@@ -452,9 +452,9 @@ It is compatible with B<zenity>:
     2> >(zenity --progress --auto-kill) | wc
 
 
-=item B<--basefile> I<file> (beta testing)
+=item B<--basefile> I<file>
 
-=item B<--bf> I<file> (beta testing)
+=item B<--bf> I<file>
 
 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
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ Implies B<--pipe> unless B<--pipepart> is used.
 See also B<--fifo>.
 
 
-=item B<--cleanup> (beta testing)
+=item B<--cleanup>
 
 Remove transferred files. B<--cleanup> will remove the transferred
 files on the remote computer after processing is done.
@@ -1060,9 +1060,9 @@ 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> (beta testing)
+=item B<--controlmaster>
 
-=item B<-M> (beta testing)
+=item B<-M>
 
 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
@@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ This is useful for running the same command (e.g. uptime) on a list of
 servers.
 
 
-=item B<--onall> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--onall> (beta testing)
 
 Run all the jobs on all computers given with B<--sshlogin>. GNU
 B<parallel> will log into B<--jobs> number of computers in parallel
@@ -1161,9 +1161,9 @@ of each job is saved in a file and the filename is then printed.
 
 See also: B<--results>
 
-=item B<--pipe> (beta testing)
+=item B<--pipe>
 
-=item B<--spreadstdin> (beta testing)
+=item B<--spreadstdin>
 
 Spread input to jobs on stdin (standard input). Read a block of data
 from stdin (standard input) and give one block of data as input to one
@@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ the joblog.
 See also B<--joblog>, B<--resume>, B<--resume-failed>.
 
 
-=item B<--retries> I<n> (beta testing)
+=item B<--retries> I<n>
 
 If a job fails, retry it on another computer on which it has not
 failed. Do this I<n> times. If there are fewer than I<n> computers in
@@ -1533,7 +1533,7 @@ useful if some jobs fail for no apparent reason (such as network
 failure).
 
 
-=item B<--return> I<filename> (beta testing)
+=item B<--return> I<filename>
 
 Transfer files from remote computers. B<--return> is used with
 B<--sshlogin> when the arguments are files on the remote computers. When
@@ -1791,7 +1791,7 @@ Do not use the first line of input (used by GNU B<parallel> itself
 when called with B<--shebang>).
 
 
-=item B<--sql> I<DBURL> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--sql> I<DBURL> (beta testing)
 
 Submit jobs via SQL server. I<DBURL> must point to a table, which will
 contain the same information as B<--joblog>, the values from the input
@@ -1823,12 +1823,12 @@ It can also be an alias from ~/.sql/aliases:
   :myalias mysql:///mydb/paralleljobs
 
 
-=item B<--sqlandworker> I<DBURL> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--sqlandworker> I<DBURL> (beta testing)
 
 Shorthand for: B<--sql> I<DBURL> B<--sqlworker> I<DBURL>.
 
 
-=item B<--sqlworker> I<DBURL> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--sqlworker> I<DBURL> (beta testing)
 
 Execute jobs via SQL server. Read the input sources variables from the
 table pointed to by I<DBURL>. The I<command> on the command line
@@ -2050,14 +2050,14 @@ Print the job to be run on stderr (standard error).
 See also B<-v>, B<-p>.
 
 
-=item B<--transfer> (beta testing)
+=item B<--transfer>
 
 Transfer files to remote computers. Shorthand for: B<--transferfile {}>.
 
 
-=item B<--transferfile> I<filename> (beta testing)
+=item B<--transferfile> I<filename>
 
-=item B<--tf> I<filename> (beta testing)
+=item B<--tf> I<filename>
 
 B<--transferfile> is used with B<--sshlogin> to transfer files to the
 remote computers. The files will be transferred using B<rsync> and
@@ -2187,9 +2187,9 @@ Use B<-v> B<-v> to print the wrapping ssh command when running remotely.
 Print the version GNU B<parallel> and exit.
 
 
-=item B<--workdir> I<mydir> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--workdir> I<mydir> (beta testing)
 
-=item B<--wd> I<mydir> (alpha testing)
+=item B<--wd> I<mydir> (beta testing)
 
 Files transferred using B<--transferfile> and B<--return> will be
 relative to I<mydir> on remote computers, and the command will be

src/sql

@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ $Global::Initfile && unlink $Global::Initfile;
 exit ($err);
 
 sub parse_options {
-    $Global::version = 20160122;
+    $Global::version = 20160222;
     $Global::progname = 'sql';
 
     # This must be done first as this may exec myself

testsuite/Makefile

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ prereqlocal: installparallel
 	which timeout || (echo timeout is required for testsuite; /bin/false)
 	which autossh || (echo autossh is required for testsuite; /bin/false)
 	which lsh || (echo lsh is required for testsuite; /bin/false)
-	timeout 10 ssh sh@lo true || (echo ssh sh@lo is required for testsuite; /bin/false)
+	timeout 20 ssh sh@lo true || (echo ssh sh@lo is required for testsuite; /bin/false)
 	timeout 5 ssh csh@lo true || (echo ssh csh@lo is required for testsuite; /bin/false)
 
 prereqremote: installparallel startvm

testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-polarhome.sh

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export -f copy_and_test
 stdout parallel -j0 -k --retries $RETRIES --timeout $TIMEOUT --delay 0.1 --tag  -v copy_and_test {} ::: $POLAR
 
 # Test remote wrapper working on all platforms
-parallel -j0 --nonall -k $S_POLAR hostname
+parallel -j0 --nonall -k --timeout $TIMEOUT $S_POLAR hostname
 
 cat /tmp/test_empty_cmd
 rm /tmp/test_empty_cmd

testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local-ssh4

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Funky-
  * Documentation:  http://www.linuxmint.com
 
 
-zsh:130: command not found: alias_echo
+zsh:129: command not found: alias_echo
 function_works
 myvar  works
 array_val2
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ assoc_val_a
 Funky-
 	
 
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-zsh:130: command not found: alias_echo
+zsh:129: command not found: alias_echo
 function_works_over_ssh
 myvar  works
 array_val2

testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local23

@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ echo '### Check that 4 processes are really used'
 echo '### --version must have higher priority than retired options'
 ### --version must have higher priority than retired options
   $NICEPAR --version -g -Y -U -W -T | tail
-Copyright (C) 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015 Ole Tange
+Copyright (C) 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016
-and Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Ole Tange and Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
 GNU parallel comes with no warranty.