ScriptingServiceExample(1)

💖 NAME 💖

scriptingserviceexample — an itty-bitty example client script for the Scripting Service, living its best life in the General Commands Manual, section 1 (so man 1 scriptingserviceexample, bestie, iykyk).

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

scriptingserviceexample [ID]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so scriptingserviceexample is a small shell script that's basically a tutorial-to-go for how to use the scripting service — and it plays with PU and PE, no cap. here's the whole vibe step by step:

1. it first creates a temporary directory, and the name of that directory is made from the unique ID you gave it.
2. inside that directory it makes an input directory with two files in it: an example input file called my-input.data, and a run script called ssrun. and yes, ssrun is literally written out by echo commands from inside scriptingserviceexample itself. iconic behavior tbh. 💅
3. the input directory gets archived with Tar/GZip and handed off to scriptingclient as the input file.
4. scriptingclient distributes that input to a Scripting PE, which unpacks the archive and executes ssrun.
5. ssrun gets the name of an output archive as its first argument — that archive is created by the example script, and it contains an example output file called my-output.data.
6. that output archive gets transferred back to the PU.
7. finally, scriptingserviceexample dumps the content of my-output.data so you can see it. 🫶

now, the gag is that you're meant to take scriptingserviceexample as a starting point and go do something way more useful with the scripting service: like, simulation input could be packaged together with a script that actually executes a simulation program on that input and archives the results. then the scripting service can be used to distribute a whole set of simulation runs out to a pool of processing nodes. main character energy for your cluster. 🔥

IMPORTANT NOTE ON SECURITY, AND I'M SERIOUS, BESTIE: the scripting service does not include any security features yet. which means arbitrary scripts will be executed. without modifications (for example signatures), do NOT use it outside of a controlled environment. periodt. 💀

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

the following options are available:

• ID — gives an unique identifier for the example run, for example: 1234.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• for a detailed introduction to RSerPool, see: https://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-16326/Dre2006_final.pdf
• Thomas Dreibholz's RSerPool Page: https://www.nntb.no/~dreibh/rserpool/

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and that's the whole page, bestie ✨ this one came from Scripting Control and it's dated May 12, 2025 — go forth and script responsibly, mwah 🎀💜