Hi,

I am trying to get some information on the jobs that are running. I have used the "ps" command, to get information such as 'cpu usage', 'username', 'pid', etc.,

I've also used the "bjobs" command to get information such as 'submit time' and 'start time'. The only thing I need now is to get the 'completion time'.

After several tries, all that I can see is the 'submit time', and 'start time'. How do I get the 'completion time' or 'end time' of a job?

Is there any command that can be used to get the job completion time or atleast the time taken for execution?

Thank you very much for your time and efforts.

well you can code your programs to log these details in logfiles. This is comon operation in all my programs. You can here also log exit statuses cpu usage af stuff like that.

Thank you for your reply.

I am a beginner in Unix. Can you give some idea as to how I would write these codes. Is there any special command to log these information?

Thanks again.

You can always use
$ echo "Script $0 started @ `date` >> $yourlogfile"
(note that you can modify the date format, to learn more about this try `man date`)

You can grep top 900 or ps -ef for your process (pid of current process is always $$). Note if you grep with $$ you will get first child process(es) out aswell. You can also grep for $0 (program itself), but if running multible times this is not certain.
for exit status you will use $? after a commandline (for instance "ls -l *.txt 2&1>/dev/null";echo $?) --- this means if files was found exit status of ls is 0 (0 is always the good exitstatus), if its greater than 0 it means either ls was flagged bad or it returned no rows.
You will then use $? in an if like "pexitcode=$?;if [ $pexitcode -gt 0 ]; then echo "$0 went bad, exiting with status $pexitcode";fi
(its always a good idea to set $? of a commandline right after, so that you will be able to use it later on

You can always exit your program, with an exitcode/status, note that no code after an exit will be run. You can choose your own exit codes as you wish, dont know if unix core has a limit, but somewhat all you need is less than a hundred...


hope this helps