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bug #37694: Empty string argument skipped when using --quote

Submitter:  Ben Booth <benwbooth>
Submitted:  Thu 08 Nov 2012 09:20:27 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  tange
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sat 24 Nov 2012 04:34:39 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed in [a8a451c]

Ole Tange <tange>
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Thu 08 Nov 2012 09:20:27 PM UTC, original submission:  

When using GNU parallel with the --quote option, the empty string argument is skipped. Here is an example:

parallel -q --nonall perl -le 'print scalar @ARGV' 'a' 'b' ''

The output is:
2

Here is the command without using parallel:

perl -le 'print scalar @ARGV' 'a' 'b' ''

The output is:
3


Ben Booth <benwbooth>

 

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