Run wine in parallel with gnu-parallel - needs {%} slot substitution to work

Question

I have been running wine/dos commands in parallel in ubuntu with gnu-parallel. I can and have done this successfully with simple commands without problem.

However, some

Answer 1

Your version of parallel appears to be too old.

Do you see {%} in the documentation that shipped with your version or just online?

The release notes for GNU Parallel 20140522 indicate:

• {%} introduced as job slot replacement string. It has known bugs.

and the release notes for GNU Parallel 20140622 indicate:

• {%} works as job slot.