Ticket 9236 - sbatch fails if --output/--error are specified and submitted under a directory that contains percent "%"
Summary: sbatch fails if --output/--error are specified and submitted under a director...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Slurm
Classification: Unclassified
Component: User Commands (show other tickets)
Version: 20.02.2
Hardware: Linux Linux
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Assignee: Jacob Jenson
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Reported: 2020-06-14 23:40 MDT by Eisuke Kawashima
Modified: 2022-02-15 23:10 MST (History)
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Description Eisuke Kawashima 2020-06-14 23:40:25 MDT 
Hi,

If a job is submitted under a directory whose path contains one or more percent `%` characters, sbatch without `--output` and `--error` options is successful and `slurm-%j.out` is created:

$ mkdir foo%%bar
$ cd foo%%bar
$ sbatch << EOF
#!/bin/bash
EOF
Submitted batch job 1
$ ls
slurm-1.out

However, a batch job immediately exits and stdout and stderr vanish if the options are specified:

$ sbatch --output=stdout --error=stderr << EOF
#!/bin/bash
sleep 10m
EOF
Submitted batch job 2
$ squeue | awk '$1 == 2'; : the job has ended
$ ls
slurm-1.out


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Comment 1 Eisuke Kawashima 2020-06-15 17:37:32 MDT 
So, `%%` in the SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR is converted to `%`:

$ mkdir foo%bar foo%%bar
$ cd foo%%bar
$ sbatch --output=stdout.%j --error=stderr.%j << EOF
#!/bin/bash
EOF
Submitted batch job 3
$ ls
$ ls ../foo%bar
stderr.3 stdout.3

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