Make sacct to not truncate the SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID

Question

I need to find the taskID of my job array that got a timeout. So I use sacct as follows.

sacct -u <UserID> -j <jobID> -s TIMEOUT

and I get this as output.

User     JobID        start
----     -----        -----
<UserID> <JobID>_90+  ....

My taskID is a four-digit number that has been truncated by sacct and displayed as 90+ instead. How can I get the full taskID?

Answer 1

The sacct command has a --format parameter that allows customising the columns shown, along with their size.

The following will show the same three columns as your example, with a 30-character wide column for jobid:

sacct -u <UserID> -j <jobID> -s TIMEOUT --format user,jobid%-30,start