On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Glen Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Parallel is having trouble handling quotes for me. If I run
>
> parallel echo \"'{}'\" ::: 你好 世界
>
> I get \?\?\?\?\?\? back.
Are you sure you do not get:
\�\�\�\�\�\�
\�\�\�\�\�\�
> My mental model for this cmd is that echo "你好" and echo "世界" would be pass to
> the subshell, and it should print those characters without problem.
And it would do that, if you had not quoted {}. {} is quoted by GNU
Parallel itself so it should not be quoted any further:
$ parallel echo {} ::: 你好 世界
你好
世界
> export start="你好"
> parallel -a file name=\"'${start} {}'\"';' curl -o /dev/null
> \"'$url/$start/$name'\"
Move {} outside the quotes and it should work.
/Ole
