You're mixing up --Format and --format. The latter uses printf-like "%<field>" syntax:
squeue --format="%20u" and the former: squeue --Format="username:20" > On Aug 29, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Mahmood Naderan <mahmood...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > I want to make the user column larger than the default display format. The > following command fails > > # squeue --format="user%20" > squeue: error: Invalid job format specification: > user%20 > user%20 > > > Regards, > Mahmood > > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Jeffrey T. Frey, Ph.D. Systems Programmer V / HPC Management Network & Systems Services / College of Engineering University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716 Office: (302) 831-6034 Mobile: (302) 419-4976 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::