On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 07:22:52PM +0200, Ole Tange wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 3:38 PM Andreas Tille <andr...@fam-tille.de> wrote: > : > > I admit I also considered a wrapper but with a different functionality: > > Simply check whether --citation was used before and if not do so. > > If you mean a wrapper similar to this, then that would be a compromise > I can live with: > > if [ -t 2 -a ! -e "$HOME/.citation-run" ] ; then > # Only run if stderr is a terminal (to avoid breaking scripts) > parallel.real --citation > touch "$HOME/.citation-run" > fi > parallel.real "$@"
Thats fragil. There is no guarantee that a (system) user has $HOME that it is writable. (Regardin what to do in Debian, maybe its time to resurrect #597050?) -- tobi
