Williams, Gareth (IM&T, Black Mountain) wrote on 1/23/23 7:55 PM:
Be brave and experiment! How far wrong can you go?
Hmm I do love breaking and re-fixing things...
srun bash -c "cmd1 infile1 | cmd2 opt2 arg2 | cmd3 opt3 arg3 -- > outfile && cmd4
opt4 arg4"
Yes this will work! Thanks!
Be brave and experiment! How far wrong can you go?
I will offer two related tips.
1) Since you want/need to use shell syntax, use srun to run a shell and pass
the command as a string for that shell to interpret. Like:
srun bash -c "cmd1 infile1 | cmd2 opt2 arg2 | cmd3 opt3 arg3 -- > outfile &&
I want to run a command like: cmd1 infile1 | cmd2 opt2 arg2 | cmd3 opt3 arg3 -- >
outfile && cmd4 opt4 arg4
Which runs fine at any prompt.
I'm afraid to just put `srun` at the beginning though, would it run the whole
set of commands on the compute node? I don't want to try it because it
invol
