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Install GNU Parallel on any system including Cygwin
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setup_gnuparallel.sh
#!/bin/bash
# useful for platforms such as Cygwin that don't currently have GNU Parallel in their repo.
# prerequisite: make
(
wd=$(mktemp -d)
wget -nc -P $wd ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/parallel-latest.tar.bz2
cd $wd
tar -xf parallel-latest.tar.bz2
cd parallel-*
./configure && make && make install
)
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scivision commented Sep 21, 2022 •
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I moved this to https://gist.github.com/scivision/a83bb62e3f1cdfc379223370af04e915

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Wget is not available on git bash so that command also fails

MINGW (and therefore git-bash) has wget available for install:

  • try running /c/MinGW/bin/mingw-get.exe in git bash and it should open the MinGW Installation Manager
  • scroll down to "msys-wget" and right click the one with Class "bin"
  • select "Mark for Installation"
  • on the top click "Installation"
  • select "Apply Changes"
  • click "Apply"
  • close the install manager, restart git-bash, and try running wget

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It is unclear to me why @scotty6435 believes the command will fail just because wget is not installed:

(wget -O - pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh

As long as you have just one of wget, lynx,curl, or fetch installed it should work just fine.

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