SLURM: Save job script

Question

In SLURM, I can easily specify the files for logging in my job script:

#SBATCH --output=logs/output-%j
#SBATCH --error=logs/error-%j

Now, I use a jobscript that is generated programmatically. Whenever I submit a job, I'd like to save that jobscript as logs/jobscript-%j.

How could I do that? (The main difficulty seems to be to get %j.)

You might want to take a look at [this other question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43944543/slurm-job-knowing-what-node-it-is-on/) and do something similar within your script. — AndresM, Aug 03 '17 at 15:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '17 at 04:51

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Within your run, $SLURM_JOB_ID gives you the job ID, %j.

answered Jul 31 '17 at 04:51

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 14 '17 at 12:49

When you submit the job, Slurm responds with the job ID. So capture that output (newer versions of Slurm make this easier with the option --parsable) in a Bash variable and use mv to rename the submission script as wanted; e.g.

JOBID=$(sbatch --parsable <name of submission script>)
mv <name of submission script> logs/jobscript-$JOBID

SLURM: Save job script

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