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Has anyone been able to successfully use GNU Parallel on Windows 10 with git-bash? Is it possible? - If so, how?

Background: I'm having trouble installing GNU Parallel and using it, and it got me thinking - maybe git-bash is holding me back? I'm sure if I installed Ubuntu through WSL I wouldn't have any problems running GNU Parallel. But I wanted to know if I could do this in git-bash first.

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    I'm sure Ole Tange will advise you, since he is the author, but in the meantime, be aware that GNU Parallel is a Perl script, so you are going to need a Perl interpreter whatever you do. Commented Sep 18, 2018 at 22:08
  • Thanks Mark! I appreciate your feedback and information. I hope somebody has the answer because for the life of me I can't find this anywhere on google. I guess it's confusing for me because I'm more of a pure unix guy - this whole gitbash shell running on windows thing is crazy to me. Commented Sep 18, 2018 at 22:23
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    You and me both, I don't understand the whole gibberish shell (oops, I meant "gitbash") malarkey on Windows either. Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 7:35

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I just installed git-bash on a Microsoft Windows 10 machine and had no problems installing GNU Parallel.

It is by no means well tested on git-bash, but basic functionality clearly works.

I'm having trouble installing GNU Parallel

Maybe you can post the error you get when running:

$ (wget -O - pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || \
   fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh
$ sha1sum install.sh | grep 883c667e01eed62f975ad28b6d50e22a
12345678 883c667e 01eed62f 975ad28b 6d50e22a
$ md5sum install.sh | grep cc21b4c943fd03e93ae1ae49e28573c0
cc21b4c9 43fd03e9 3ae1ae49 e28573c0
$ sha512sum install.sh | grep da012ec113b49a54e705f86d51e784ebced224fdf
79945d9d 250b42a4 2067bb00 99da012e c113b49a 54e705f8 6d51e784 ebced224
fdff3f52 ca588d64 e75f6033 61bd543f d631f592 2f87ceb2 ab034149 6df84a35
$ bash install.sh
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I hope you still follow this question @Ole Tange. I have a problem when trying to install GNU parallel in windows and I don't have any solution to fix it. I tried to use your solution above, but it's still not working. 1. There is a warning on my computer about GnuPG with this information GnuPG (gpg) is not installed so the signature cannot be checked. This means that if the code has been changed by criminals, you will not discover that! Continue anyway? (y/n) 2. If I choose Y, there is a new issue. 10seconds_install: line 123: cd: $'parallel-20190922\r': No such file or directory
3. I tried to fix it by using an older version, it seems to be Ok. But I don't have any executable file which can run on windows. I can't see any error which is showing on my console screen, I think I should show all messages to you but I can't because of the character limitation. So, I guess the error is below: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'. The last info I received is: installed globally22
installed globally means it is installed in /usr/local/bin. So that dir should be in your $PATH. I am puzzled why you get the \r, because I just tested and I do not get that on my git-bash installation. The only why I can make sense of it, is if your version of sort inserts the \r. You can replace sort with: perl -e 'print sort <>'.
I think this bash script for install GNU parallel to windows and there is no /usr/local/bin in windows. Is it wrong?
Yes it is wrong: When running in git-bash it will emulate a /usr/local/bin dir. So that is not the issue.
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