Problems to reuse --eta output

Hello, I am trying to let users to get meaningful time remaining measurements from the parallel output. For now I am putting parallel 2 output to a file. The problem is that the file is constantly being updated and, then, even if I can watch it properly with "tail -f ..." I cannot do, for example:

Re: Is there some syntax for executing {} for 1..Inf?

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Ole Tange wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen > wrote: >> On 7 December 2017 at 00:37, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason >> wrote: >>> >>> I recently had a use-case for: >>> >>> parallel 'cmd {}' ::: {1..Inf} >> >> Maybe something