Ole- Cause of the long filename error was painful. The file with the paths was utf8 with linefeeds and had changed to carriage returns. Consequently it was sending all of the paths as one ultra long string. Never happened before. Haven't figure out how yet.
shell= 9780134745923 $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15) os= mac 10.11.6 > That failed because *.mp4 was not expanded by the shell and GNU > Parallel quotes special chars so it will also not expand *.mp4. > > Try this instead: > > cd '/Volumes/Cinera/SBO- Video/Python Videos > 9780134745916/Safari/9780134745923/' > parallel --workdir . -S 8/[email protected] file ::: *.mp4 That did it. Question- When I include the local machine -S :,8/[email protected] , the local machine says no such file. Odd. I also tested -S : The speed improvements are amazing. It's so satisfying to see all those cores working. - Eric
