Get CWD of bjobs in LSF environment

Question

bjobs -l gives the long description of the job where CWD is split across say 3 lines. I want a command that can reliable fetch me CWD.

Answer 1

If you're using a recent version of LSF (9.1.2+ I believe), you can use the -o option of bjobs to customize the bjobs short form output to give you each job's CWD on a single line:

$ bjobs -o 'jobid exec_cwd' 5950
JOBID EXEC_CWD
5950  /home/squirrel/cwd

If you're running an older version of LSF your only real option is to parse the long form bjobs output.

The -UF option to bjobs will display the same output at the -l option, but in an "unformatted" way. This will basically take all of those job events that are currently split into many lines and display each one on a single line for easier parsing.