If you’re literally putting spaces around the ‘=‘ character, I don’t think that’s valid shell syntax, and should throw errors into your slurm-JOBID.out file when you try it.
See if it works with A=1.0 instead of A = 1.0 > On Feb 18, 2019, at 7:55 AM, Castellana Michele <michele.castell...@curie.fr> > wrote: > > External Email Warning > This email originated from outside the university. Please use caution when > opening attachments, clicking links, or responding to requests. > Dear all, > I would like to use a variable within a slurm script as shown in the > following minimal working example. I want to define a variable A, assign a > value to it, and run multiple times a code where I use A in a command-line > flag: > > #!/bin/sh > #SBATCH --job-name=my_job > #SBATCH —time=01:00:00 > > A = 1.0; > time ./my_code.o -a $A > > A = 2.0; > time ./my_code.o -a $A > > However, this does not work. Do you know a way around this? > > Best, > M >
