Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports --sshlogin is intolerant about trailing spaces.

[Ole Tange]

Hi Tom.

Thanks for an exemplary bug report. I wish all reports were as thorough as this.

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Tom Rutledge
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Which seems more recent than I can find on :
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/  , which disturbs me somewhat.  I guess
> this one came through sysutils/parallel

Don't let that worry you. I do not use alpha releases rigorously. You
will see that 20141122 is on: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel and is in
fact the newest release.

>  I understand that
> the BNF '[sshcommand [options]] address@hidden may not explicitly
> contain whitespace, especially at the end.   Parallel will simpler for
> beginners to use and more resistant to whitespace in datafilee if —sshlogin
> is made to be tolerant of trailing whitespace.

I completely agree, and I have spent the last 5 minutes under the
shower (which is where I get my best ideas) to see if I could come up
with a scenario where it is desirable to have the trailing space be
meaningful. I found none.

So I have changed GNU Parallel to remove trailing space in sshlogins.

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

/Ole