Question

Say I submit a job using something like bsub pwd. Now I would like to get the job ID of that job in order to build a dependency for the next job. Is there some way I can get bsub to return the job ID?

Answer 1

Just as a reference, this is the best solution I could come up with so far. It takes advantage of the fact that bsub write a line containing the ID to STDOUT.

function nk_jobid {
    output=$($*)
    echo $output | head -n1 | cut -d'<' -f2 | cut -d'>' -f1
}

Usage:

jobid=$(nk_jobid bsub pwd)