Hi,
I wonder if I can use parallel to implement a "race" of jobs.
Following is what I want.
Given X jobs, start them all in parallel.
# cat jobs.txt | parallel -j$(cat jobs.txt | wc -l)
The first one to finish is the winner. Kill all the rest, and report the
winner somehow.
(Would also be nice
On 23 April 2013 22:31, Ozgur Akgun wrote:
> (Would also be nice to accept a timeout value from the user, telling how
> long they are willing to wait. If nothing finishes within the timeout,
> there is no winner.)
And before people start bashing me about this, I just remembered
`--timeout` of p
Use --joblog to get the execution time and after each job-line running
jobs.txt add " ; killall racejobs ".
Does this make sence?
/hans
2013/4/23 Ozgur Akgun
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if I can use parallel to implement a "race" of jobs.
>
> Following is what I want.
>
> Given X jobs, start them all
