GNU Parallel Bug Reports parallel 20120930 gets "Bareword found where operator expected"

[William Bader]

parallel works great on newer systems, but it gets an error on some of my older servers.

On Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) with "perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi", it gets perl errors.

I have attached a patch that moves the declaration of init_progress before its first use.  That seems to fix the problem.

William

$ echo date | parallel

Bareword found where operator expected at ./parallel- line 1296, near "$Global::original_stderr init_progress"

        (Missing operator before init_progress?)

Bareword found where operator expected at ./parallel- line 1348, near "$Global::original_stderr init_progress"

        (Missing operator before init_progress?)

Thu Oct 11 18:56:39 EDT 2012

$ parallel --version

Bareword found where operator expected at ./parallel- line 1296, near "$Global::original_stderr init_progress"

        (Missing operator before init_progress?)

Bareword found where operator expected at ./parallel- line 1348, near "$Global::original_stderr init_progress"

        (Missing operator before init_progress?)

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