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# submit first job, extract job id
sbatch_output=$(sbatch job1.sbatch)
jobid=${sbatch_output##* }
# submit second job with dependency: starts only if previous job terminates successfully)
sbatch_output=$(sbatch --dependency=afterok:$jobid job2.sbatch)
jobid=${sbatch_output##* }
# submit third job with dependency: starts only if previous job terminates successfully)
sbatch_output=$(sbatch --dependency=afterok:$jobid job2job3.sbatch) |
Job Arrays
Job arrays are the preferred way to submit many similar job. Jobs, for instance, if you need to run the same program on a number of input files, or with different settings or run them with a range of parameters. Arrays are created with the -a start-finish sbatch parameter. E.g. sbatch -a 0-19 will create 20 jobs indexed from 0 to 19. There are different ways to index the arrays, which are described below.
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