GNU Parallel Bug Reports The wierd output from total_jobs function

[Daniel Zhang]

Hi all:

I am handling jobs with parallel via pipeline, but I can't get what I need sometimes.

$ parallel --version

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$ echo -e "A\tB\tC" | parallel echo '{} {= $_=total_jobs() =}'

A B C 1

$ echo -e "A\tB\tC" | parallel --colsep '\t' echo '{} {= $_=total_jobs() =}'

A B C 1 1 1

Why the output of total_jobs() is 1 1 1 ?

Daniel