slurm get job id within bash

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Is there a built in way to get the ID of a slurm job when it is being run?

I can imagine determining the ID by parsing squeue and matching the ID to the hostname (e.g. socket.gethostname() in python). Is there a better solution?

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The job ID is assigned to the SLURM_JOB_ID environment variable. So in Python, you would get it with

import os
print(os.environ["SLURM_JOB_ID"])

Note that even though the job id is an integer, the environment variable contains a character string so you will need to call the int() function to convert it.

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