Yeah, quoting redirection is a bitch, but as long as you know GNU Parallel is just a program and not part of the shell, you can usually deduct which parts will

Yeah, quoting redirection is a bitch, but as long as you know GNU Parallel is just a program and not part of the shell, you can usually deduct which parts will be interpreted by the shell before GNU Parallel gets it. I often create bash functions to avoid that shit, and then call the bash functions from GNU Parallel instead.