Useful Linux / Merlin Commands

useful_commands.bash

# check the status of your jobs
qstat

# check the status of all jobs
qstat -u '*'

# check the status of the merlin cluster
qhost

# run an interactive analysis (default is one core and no memory)
qlogin

# run an interactive analysis with 6 cores and 20GB of memory
qlogin -l mem_free=20G -pe smp 6

# put jobs on hold so they do not run
qhold jobNumber

# pub all jobs on hold
qhold -u 'username'

# lower the priority of a single job
qalter -p -100 jobNumber

# lower the priority of all jobs
qalter -p -100 -u 'username'

# kill a single job
qdel jobNumber

# kill all of my jobs
qdel -u 'username'

# load the tipl libraries 
. /afs/psi.ch/project/tipl/tiplLoader.bash

# save all the csv files in the subdirectories into a single tar file
ls */*.csv | xargs tar cf justcsv.tar