Platform LSF Reference Version 6.2

bsub
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-V
Prints LSF release version to stderr and exits.
command [argument]
The job can be specified by a command line argument command, or through the standard
input if the command is not present on the command line. The command can be
anything that is provided to a UNIX Bourne shell (see
sh(1)). command is assumed to
begin with the first word that is not part of a
bsub option. All arguments that follow
command are provided as the arguments to the command.
If the batch job is not given on the command line,
bsub reads the job commands from
standard input. If the standard input is a controlling terminal, the user is prompted with
bsub> for the commands of the job. The input is terminated by entering CTRL-D on
a new line. You can submit multiple commands through standard input.
The commands are executed in the order in which they are given.
bsub options can also
be specified in the standard input if the line begins with
#BSUB; e.g., #BSUB -x. If an
option is given on both the
bsub command line, and in the standard input, the
command line option overrides the option in the standard input. The user can specify
the shell to run the commands by specifying the shell path name in the first line of the
standard input, such as
#!/bin/csh. If the shell is not given in the first line, the Bourne
shell is used. The standard input facility can be used to spool a user’s job script; such as
bsub < script.
See EXAMPLES below for examples of specifying commands through standard input.
OUTPUT
If the job is successfully submitted, displays the job ID and the queue to which the job
has been submitted.
EXAMPLES
% bsub sleep 100
Submit the UNIX command sleep together with its argument 100 as a batch job.
% bsub -q short -o my_output_file "pwd; ls"
Submit the UNIX command pwd and ls as a batch job to the queue named short
and store the job output in
my_output file.
% bsub -m "host1 host3 host8 host9" my_program
Submit my_program to run on one of the candidate hosts: host1, host3, host8 and
host9.
% bsub -q "queue1 queue2 queue3" -c 5 my_program
Submit my_program to one of the candidate queues: queue1, queue2, and
queue3 which are selected according to the CPU time limit specified by -c 5.
% bsub -I ls
Submit a batch interactive job which displays the output of ls at the user’s terminal.
% bsub -Ip vi myfile
Submit a batch interactive job to edit myfile.
% bsub -Is csh