bash variable expansion in slurm's #SBATCH directive

Question

is it possible to use variable expansion in #SBATCH lines in slurm? for instance I want to have line below:

#SBATCH --array=0-100%{$1-10}

so that by default it uses 10 concurrent job unless I manually pass an argument when I call sbatch.

Above gives me an Invalid job array specification error.

Does this answer your question? [Pass command line arguments via sbatch](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27708656/pass-command-line-arguments-via-sbatch) — ndrwnaguib, Sep 20 '22 at 18:00

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '21 at 07:00

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No, this isn't possible. But you can overwrite the scripts default --array by giving it explicitly on the sbatch command line.

answered May 22 '21 at 07:00

ciaron

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