Ticket 9236

Summary:	sbatch fails if --output/--error are specified and submitted under a directory that contains percent "%"
Product:	Slurm	Reporter:	Eisuke Kawashima <e.kawaschima+slurm>
Component:	User Commands	Assignee:	Jacob Jenson <jacob>
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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


Best

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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