On 2014-03-01 11:29:03 -0800, Dave Yost wrote: > In http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#GNU-Parallel > > Where you say > ls *.gz | parallel -j+0 "zcat {} | bzip2 >{.}.bz2 && rm {}" > This will recompress all files in the current directory with names ending in > .gz using bzip2, running one job per CPU (-j+0) in parallel. > > it should be > ls *.gz | parallel -j+0 "zcat {} | bzip2 >{.}.bz2 && rm {}" > This will recompress all files in the current directory with names ending in > .bz2 using bzip2, running one job per CPU (-j+0) in parallel.
I think you're reading this wrong. "With" in this context is a limitation of the glob selection, not the output filename.
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