Silently submit a job with qsub to SGE

Question

I have a bash script which submits hundreds of jobs using qsub to a slowly responding SGE queue (it takes a good second for each job ID to show up).

In order to bypass this time consuming process and not kill my script when I quit my shell, I run my script as a background job by appending &. While this saves me a good half an hour at times, the job ID's still appear and mess up with the command prompt.

I was wondering if it is possible to suppress the display of job ID's or in some way silently submit jobs to a queue. Though, this link talks of a -z argument, it doesn't work nor is there a mention of it on the qsub man page.

Thanks!

Answer 1

better solution: instead of using '&' use gnu screen to create a session, submit your job and leave the session: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ .

Then, at any time, you can create new (full-screen) windows with other programs in them (including more shells), kill the current window, view a list of the active windows, turn output logging on and off, copy text between windows, view the scrollback history, switch between windows, etc. All windows run their programs completely independent of each other. Programs continue to run when their window is currently not visible and even when the whole screen session is detached from the users terminal.