Specifying a directory for job output

Procedure

Make the final character in the path a slash (/) on UNIX, or a double backslash (\\) on Windows.

If you omit the trailing slash or backslash characters, LSF treats the specification as a file name.

If the specified directory does not exist, LSF creates it on the execution host when it creates the standard error and standard output files.

By default, the output files have the following format:

Standard output: output_directory/job_ID.out

Standard error: error_directory/job_ID.err

Example

The following command creates the directory /usr/share/lsf_out if it does not exist, and creates the standard output file job_ID.out in this directory when the job completes:

bsub -o /usr/share/lsf_out/ myjob

The following command creates the directory C:\lsf\work\lsf_err if it does not exist, and creates the standard error file job_ID.err in this directory when the job completes:

bsub -e C:\lsf\work\lsf_err\\ myjob