Re: [Condor-users] a vanilla job

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since Condor and /bin/sh are toying with the "'s you likely have to have
a set of "'s for each program that interprets them.

Try:

	arguments=-c \"\"/bin/date +%s\"\"


matt

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 09:24, marco Netscape wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I tryied in many ways to pass the obstacle  of specifying a
> blank-space inside a   character argument 
> 
> executable=/bin/sh
> arguments=-c date +%s
> executable=/bin/sh
> arguments=-c "date +%s"
> 
> executable=/bin/sh
> arguments=-c 'date +%s'
> 
> executable=/bin/sh
> arguments=-c \"date +%s\"
> 
> executable=/bin/sh
> arguments=-c \'date +%s\'
> 
> 
> ..... but no one of that works ..... 
> Do you know how condor instantiate a process? 
> MayBe there is a trick....or just with a little change in lib_script or something like....Or maybe simply a bug
> 
> 
> 
> J.Kewley@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Hi ,
> > > I am using the following submission file for condor:
> > > 
> > > executable=/bin/sh
> > > arguments=-c date +%s
> > > output=res.out
> > > error=res.err
> > > log=res.log
> > > universe=vanilla
> > > notification=never
> > > queue
> > > 
> > > and I 'd expect a result like
> > > 1088427848
> > > 
> > > but I obtain :
> > > Mon Jun 28 14:58:00 CEST 2004
> > > 
> > > 
> > > In effect condor jobs seem to parse only the 1st argument: It really 
> > > execute a  process  
> > > /bin/sh -c date  --->  Mon Jun 28 14:58:00 CEST 2004
> > > 
> > > and not
> > > /bin/sh -c date  +%s --->  1088427848
> > >     
> > If I run this on the command line, I get the same result as your Condor is
> > giving (Whitebox
> > Linux)
> > 
> > If I run it on cygwin, it gets confused with the % (presumably windows
> > interaction).
> > 
> > Putting single quotes around the date part seems to work on the command
> > line:
> > 
> > /bin/sh -c 'date +%s'
> > 
> > Maybe sh is gobbling the +%s, thinking it is one of its options.
> > BTW I think double quotes would also do the trick.
> > 
> > Does this work?
> > 
> > JK 
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