command line usage example of bsub

example.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#BSUB -J example

JOBIDS=""

# example loop
for (( i = 0; i < 10; i++ )); do
    RUNSCRIPT=example.sh
    echo "#! /usr/bin/env bash" > $RUNSCRIPT
    echo "#BSUB -J example_slave" >> $RUNSCRIPT
    echo "sleep 3" >> $RUNSCRIPT
    
    # submit the job
    JOB=$(bsub < $RUNSCRIPT)
    # get the id
    JOBID=$(echo $JOB | sed -rn 's/.*<([0-9]+)>.*/\1/p')
    # add the job id to a space delimited string
    JOBIDS="$JOBIDS $JOBID"
done

# wait for completion
python -m bsub $JOBIDS
# do more stuff
echo "dependencies complete"