xargs: losing output when redirecting stdout to a file in parallel mode

Question

I am using GNU xargs (version 4.2.2) in parallel mode and I seem to be reliably losing output when redirecting to a file. When redirecting to a pipe, it appears to work corr

Answer 1

I know this question is about xargs, but if you keep on having issues with it, then perhaps GNU Parallel may be of help. Your xargs invocation would translate to:

$ < /tmp/nums parallel -j20 -N100 echo > /tmp/out; wc /tmp/out
26  2550 11643 /tmp/out