Acquire an Interactive Session on a SLURM cluster

idev.sh

function idev() {
    local nodes="1"
    if [[ "$(sinfo -h -o "%P")" =~ .*^$1$.* ]]; then
        local partition="$1"
        shift
    fi
    if [[ "$1" =~ [0-9]+ ]]; then
        nodes="$1"
        shift
    fi
    echo "Starting interactive job, ${partition+Partition: \"${partition}\", }Number of nodes: \"${nodes}\""${@:+, Arguments: \"${@}\"}
    srun ${partition+-p} $partition -N ${nodes} --pty "/bin/bash" -l "${@}"
}