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Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Regression with passing zero-length paramet
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Ole Tange |
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Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Regression with passing zero-length parameters |
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Wed, 29 Jul 2015 02:37:01 +0200 |
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Ole Tange <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Andreas Bernauer
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I can confirm that the behavior has changed. I think it changed to the
>> better, though, as the colsep argument is treated according to the docs.
> :
>> The recent version allows to have 'empty' columns: your test data can
>> now be interpreted as a four-column input ['A', '', 'B', 'C'] and ['D',
>> 'E', '', 'F'], whereas with previous versions, this was impossible.
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> Yes. And this was exactly the reason for the change. If you have any
> improvements for the documentation so this is more clear, I would love
> to see them.
It is also mentioned in the release notes for 20150622 ('Løkke'):
* An empty argument would previously cause no string to be
inserted. This is now changed to '' being inserted, thus prepending
a space to the output of: parallel echo {} b ::: ''
/Ole