What's new in GNU Parallel 20140222
Feb 22, 2014
- --tollef has been retired.
- --compress has be redesigned due to bugs, making this release alpha quality.
- The format of --eta and --joblog has changed slightly.
New in GNU Parallel 20140122 (Jan 22, 2014)
- GNU Parallel was cited in: On the likelihood of multiple bit upsets in logic circuits http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/pdf/1401.1003
- HaploClique uses GNU Parallel https://github.com/armintoepfer/haploclique
- Scraping NSScreencast https://blog.nicolai86.eu/posts/2014-01-12/scraping-nsscreencast/
- 30 Cool Open Source Software I Discovered in 2013 http://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/30-cool-best-open-source-softwares-of-2013/
- [Unix] 13. The power of doing things in Parallel http://leetaey.tistory.com/384
- Parallel the execution of a job that read from stdin http://www.linuxask.com/questions/parallel-the-execution-of-a-job-that-read-from-stdin
- Mon Make à moi (6:38-11:50) http://videos.rennes.inria.fr/ReNaBI-GO2013/indexPierreLindenbaum.html
- Shell-Abarbeitung beschleunigen: Wie Sie mit parallelen Prozesse effizienter in der Shell arbeiten https://www.hosteurope.ch/blog/shell-abarbeitung-beschleunigen-wie-sie-mit-parallelen-prozesse-effizienter-in-der-shell-arbeiten/
- Summary of GNU Parallel tutorial http://hacktracking.blogspot.dk/2014/01/gnu-parallel-tutorial.html
- Bug fixes and man page updates.
New in GNU Parallel 20131222 (Dec 27, 2013)
- Detect if the buffer dir $TMPDIR runs out of space. This changes a central piece of code, making this release alpha quality.
- --keep-order --(n)onall will sort according to the sshlogin.
- Detection number of CPUs on DEC Tru64.
- GNU sql: --list-tables for sqlite3.
- Bug fixes and man page updates.
New in GNU Parallel 20131122 (Nov 23, 2013)
- A citation notice is printed on stderr only if stderr is a terminal, the user has not specified --no-notice, and the user has not run --bibtex once.
- --compress will compress temporary files. --compress-program controls which program to use for compressing temporary files.
- --bar shows progress as a progress bar compatible with zenity.
- --resume can now be used with --result: jobs already run will be skipped.
- --transfer and --basefile support paths relative to the --workdir by inserting /./ into the path.
New in GNU Parallel 20131022 (Oct 22, 2013)
- Using --transfer with files containing /./ in the path will copy the files relative to the --workdir.
- The maximal command length is now cached in a file, halving the startup time.
New in GNU Parallel 20130922 (Sep 23, 2013)
- PDF-files of documentation are now included.
- Bug fixes and man page updates have been made.
New in GNU Parallel 20130822 (Aug 23, 2013)
- This version adds a tutorial showing much of GNU Parallel's functionality. man parallel_tutorial --line-buffer will buffer output on a line basis.
- --record-env records all variables and functions set (useful to record the normal environment before using --env _).
- --env _ exports all functions and variables to the remote server except for the ones recorded.
New in GNU Parallel 20130622 (Jun 24, 2013)
- --xapply now recycles arguments if an input source has more arguments than others.
- The sleep time between jobs is now both increased and decreased exponentially.
- 10 seconds installation checks the signature using GnuPG if GnuPG is installed.
New in GNU Parallel 20130522 (May 22, 2013)
- The software can now be installed in 10 seconds by running wget -O - pi.dk/3 | sh.
- CPU detection was added for HURD, IRIX, SCO OpenServer, and HPUX.
- --ctrlc will send SIGINT to tasks running on remote computers and thus kill them.
- --load now uses 'ps' to find the number of running processes instead of 'uptime' and is much faster.
- CentOS 3.9 and FreeBSD 7 compatibility bugs were fixed.
- Some of these required quite extensive changes, making this release beta quality.
- --retries now works with --onall.
- The new --load computation now works on FreeBSD 7.
- --nice works under tcsh