Hi Samdani A., On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:57:47 +0530 Samdani A <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all, > > I used GNU parallel to process 144766 files using 8 jobs run in parallel. > But the following error arising on starting the process. > > parallel -j 8 "do something" ::: *.txt > bash: /usr/local/bin/parallel: Argument list too long > > Can anyone tell the maximum input files which can be given for input to run > in GNU parallel? or anyother way to process these many number of files? > This is a limitation of Unix - see https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pike-responds . You can overcome it by passing the filenames using standard input, e.g: ls | grep -vE '\.txt$' | [parallel here] > > Thanks and Regards > Samdani.A -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ NSA Factoids - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/NSA/ Give me ASCII or give me deaþ! Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
