a curses based wrapper script for LSF BJOBS command to improve on design and increase usefulness
Standard bjobs output is not interactive, is not color highlighted, and is not information dense. better-bjobs aims to provide a wrapper to extract the useful information from bjobs and discard the rest.
The best way to understand this is to compare the outputs of both:
To install better-bjobs you simply need to download the python script bj.py and place it in your PATH. For ease of use I reccomend adding an alias to run the script.
mkdir -p $HOME/.local/bin # create bin folder in home if not exists
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/seanlaidlaw/better-bjobs/master/bj.py --output $HOME/.local/bin/bj.py
echo "alias bj='python $HOME/.local/bin/bj.py'" >> $HOME/.bashrc
Unlike the standard bjobs command better-bjobs as an interactive terminal user interface, supports multiple options for managing all currently running jobs.
By pressing the 'e' key, a scheduled email will be submitted once all job ids have finished running (regardless of exit status).
Enabling this option will turn the button green
