Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports [Feature request] easily refer to the last column of input

[Ole Tange]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Thor Andreassen <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've been using GNU parallel for a while now and I like it a lot.

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> Add column 2 and the last column, not knowing how many columns there
> will be, and append the result to the output.
:
> With my experience from perl arrays I hoped I could refer to the last
> column with {-1}, e.g. with parallel and bash:
:
> I've looked for the relevant bit in the source code, but so far I've
> been unable to find it.

I can't blame you. It is the part of the code I am least happy with -
pretty much black magic.

Please try out the current git version:

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/parallel.git


/Ole