Administering Platform LSF - SAS

Passing Arguments on the Command Line
Passing Arguments on the Command Line
The environment variable LSB_JOBINDEX is used as a substitution string to
support passing job array indices on the command line. When the job is
dispatched, LSF sets LSB_JOBINDEX in the execution environment to the job
array index of the current job. LSB_JOBINDEX is set for all jobs. For non-array
jobs, LSB_JOBINDEX is set to sero (0).
To use LSB_JOBINDEX, all the input files must be named consistently and with
a variable part that corresponds to the indices of the job array. For example:
input.1, input.2, input.3, ..., input.N
You must escape LSB_JOBINDEX with a backslash, \, to prevent the shell
interpreting bsub from expanding the variable. For example, the following
command submits a job array of 1000 jobs whose input files are named
input.1, input.2, input.3, ..., input.1000 and located in the current
working directory. The executable is being passed an argument that specifies
the name of the input files:
% bsub -J "myArray[1-1000]" myJob -f input.\$LSB_JOBINDEX
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