Re: GNU Parallel seems to drop data

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Ole Tange <ole <at> tange.dk> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd <at> debian.org> 
> wrote:
> But remember: -k only affects stdout/stderr. It does *not* affect
> output into files (like you are doing).

This may turn out to be a showstopper.  Dang.

Thanks also for pertinent info re costs of '-k'.

BTW the sort/md5sum trick didn't work:

  $ parallel -k --tag 'sort {} | md5sum' :: dataSer/*
  parallel: Input is read from the terminal. Only experts do this on purpose.\
  Press CTRL-D to exit.

  $

Any idea?

Dirk