[slurm-users] Define variables within slurm script

[Castellana Michele]

It works, thank you. 

Best,
M
> On Feb 18, 2019, at 3:03 PM, Renfro, Michael <Renfro at tntech.edu> wrote:
> 
> If you’re literally putting spaces around the ‘=‘ character, I don’t think that’s valid shell syntax, and should throw errors into your slurm-JOBID.out file when you try it.
> 
> See if it works with A=1.0 instead of A = 1.0
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2019, at 7:55 AM, Castellana Michele <Michele.Castellana at curie.fr> wrote:
>> 
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>> Dear all,
>> I would like to use a variable within a slurm script as shown in the following minimal working example. I want to define a variable A, assign a value to it, and run multiple times a code where I use A in a command-line flag: 
>> 
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #SBATCH --job-name=my_job
>> #SBATCH —time=01:00:00
>> 
>> A = 1.0;
>> time ./my_code.o -a $A
>> 
>> A = 2.0;
>> time ./my_code.o -a $A
>> 
>> However, this does not work. Do you know a way around this?
>> 
>> Best,
>> M
>> 
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