Shell Programming and Scripting

There is no reason to moan about rule 5. You joined the forum and accepted the rules. This forum is not meant to grow by redundant threads so it's absolutely legit to make you notice.
The rules are made by the people that provide this forum - it is not your forum.

So please stop moaning about the absolutely legit answers. If you have the feeling to continue making a drama where there is no need at all, you can do this elsewhere.
So the choice is yours and if you need help with that, speak up.

Hi.
The post by tange ( the author of parallel -- History of GNU Parallel - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation ) says install, but, for me, that is simply placing the code (a perl script) someplace in my PATH (like many people, I use ~/bin). Not complicated, does not require special permissions.

I update parallel every now and then, and am currently using parallel GNU parallel 20111122. The latest appears to be from 22-Apr-2015.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

I did make the choice of not contributing to this forum anymore shortly after checking out which is why I did not see your reply. Sorry if this comes too late, but I believe you are in violations of rules 1, 2 and 3 yourself.

Frankly, the whole thread leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I did not believe that a technical forum could have such a high level of finger pointing for a question that is definitely not "how do I list out files in my current directory" simple.

I find your post offensive, irrelevant to the discussion and your usage of certain terms (drama, moan) obnoxious, but that's just me. Others may see it differently and agree with you because believe it or not, I agree that the original post by sea had merit. But know that your manner of pointing it out was the absolute worst amongst all who cared to do so.