qorder(1B)

💅 qorder(1B) — the PBS glow-up page 💅

okay so this is qorder, from section 1B of the PBS manual — she's a little batch-job matchmaker and honestly her whole personality is "swap these two, don't touch anything else." 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

qorder — exchange the order of two pbs batch jobs in a queue. literally that's it, that's her job 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

qorder job_identifier job_identifier

two operands, both job_identifiers, no cap. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay bestie, so "to order two jobs" means you exchange the jobs' positions in the queue (or queues) where the jobs live. that's the whole vibe. 🔁

the two jobs must be located at the same server — like, they have to be at the same party, otherwise this doesn't work, periodt.

no attribute of the job is changed — not priority, not anything. she only moves the order, she does not redecorate. 🎀

the impact of interchanging the order within the queue(s) is dependent on your local job scheduled policy — so like, what actually happens after the swap is a whole local thing, and you should contact your systems administrator about it. iykyk. 📞

⚠️ a job in the running state cannot be reordered. she's already on stage, you can't move her in the lineup. 💀

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👑 OPERANDS 👑

both operands are job_identifiers which specify the jobs to be exchanged. qorder accepts two job_identifier operands of the form:

sequence_number[.server_name][@server]

and fr fr, the server specification for the two jobs must agree as to the current location of the two job IDs — they've gotta be on the same page about where they're at. 🌈

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💀 STANDARD ERROR 💀

the qorder command writes diagnostic messages to standard error for each error occurrence. so if something goes sideways, she tells you, loudly, on stderr. 🙈

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⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

• upon successful processing of all the operands presented to the qorder command, the exit status will be a value of zero — we love a clean 0, she ate. ✨
• if the qorder command fails to process any operand, the command exits with a value greater than zero — not slay, but informative. 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• qsub(1B)
• qmove(1B)
• pbs_orderjob(3B)
• pbs_movejob(3B)

go read those too, they're the friend group 💖

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and that's the page, bestie!! this one's a Local release, qorder(1B), no date on the tin — so like, you got the freshest local build, mwah 💋🧚‍♀️