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Bin Z. He edited this page Jul 7, 2020 · 3 revisions

Linux shell & scripting

General

How to check the number of arguments in a shell script? link

Remote computing

The notes below may be specific to the Sun Grid Engine used by the ARGON cluster at the University of Iowa.

What if job state is "eqw"? reference
If qstat or showq has "Eqw" in the STATE column for one of your jobs you can use
```
$ qstat -j jobid | grep error
```
to check the reason. If you understand the reason and can get it fixed, you can clear the error state with
```
$ qmod -cj jobid
```