qstat and long job names

Question

How can I get qstat to give me full job names?

I know qstat -r gives detailed information about the task, but it\'s too much and the resource r

Answer 1

If you just want the names:

qstat -f | grep 'Job_Name'

Example of output:

Job_Name = File.output
Job_Name = file.out

Answer 2

I am currently writing my own qstat wrapper in order to get a clean, useful and customizable output.

Here is the github repository. The project has grown too much for the code to be pasted in this message.

It comes with an installer and should work without any problem with both Python 2.7 and 3 (the installation script makes the modifications if needed). qjobs -h provides some help on the available options. I will write a more complete documentation in the following days on the github wiki.

I will update this message as often as possible to stick to the current state of the project. Please feel free to comment here (or on github) to ask for features/report problems.

In the near future, I will try to add a fully interactive mode to browse the job list more easily. Of course, the classic text output will be still available (it could be useful to e-mail the output, or for a quick check of the pending/running jobs).

Example output

Command qjobs gives:

5599109   short_name        r    2015-06-25 10:27:39   queue1
5599110   jobName           r    2015-06-25 10:35:39   queue2
5599111   a_long_job_name   qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39
5599112   foo               qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39
5599113   bar               qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39
5599114   baz               qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39
5599115   beer              qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39

tot: 7

r: 2   qw: 5

Command qjobs -o gives:

tot: 7

r: 2   qw: 5

Command qjobs -o inek -t gives (e is elapsed time since start/sub time, the format is customizable using the Format Spec. Mini-Language of Python; k is complete queue name, with domain):

5598985   SpongeBob        522:02 (21.75 days)   queue1@node23.domain.fake
5598987   ping_java        521:47 (21.74 days)   queue1@node39.domain.fake
5598988   run3.14          521:46 (21.74 days)   queue2@node40.domain.fake
5598990   strange_job_42   521:42 (21.74 days)   queue3@node36.domain.fake
5598991   coffee-maker     521:39 (21.74 days)   queue2@node34.domain.fake
5598992   dumbtask         521:29 (21.73 days)   queue1@node14.domain.fake

qjobs -i gives a complete list of the available 'items'. Each of this item is available as:

• a column output (with -o ITEMS);
• as a criteria to count the job and produces total output, with -t (e.g. -t s to count by state as in the two first examples);
• as a criteria to sort the job with -s, default is -s ips meaning that the job list is sorted by ID, then by priority and finally by state before being printed.

The result of qjobs -i is:

i: job id
p: job priority
n: job name
o: job owner
s: job state
t: job start/submission time
e: elapsed time since start/submission
q: queue name without domain
d: queue domain
k: queue name with domain
r: requested queue(s)
l: number of slots used

Answer 3

Maybe an easier solution: set SGE_LONG_JOB_NAMES to -1, and qstat will figure out the size of the name column:

export SGE_LONG_JOB_NAMES=-1
qstat -u username

Works for me.

Cheers!