Do you understand this (especially the last section)?
--workdir mydir
--wd mydir
Files transferred using --transfer and --return will be
relative to mydir on remote computers, and the command
will be executed in that dir.
The special workdir ... will create a workdir in
~/.parallel/tmp/ on the remote computers and will be
removed if using --cleanup.
The special workdir . will use the current working dir.
If the dir is a subdir of your home dir, the dir will be
converted to a relative path, so if your login on the
remote system is different, GNU parallel will still do
the right thing.
I am not too fond of the last sentence. Help me re-write it.
/Ole