Cheat-sheet

SLURM commands

Command	Description
sbatch "SLURM-file"	submit a job, controlled using the script in "SLURM-file"
scancel "job-id"	delete the job with identifier "job-id"
squeue	list basic information of all jobs
sinfo	list basic information of all nodes
scontrol	view or modify Slurm configuration and state
sacct.	pull up status information about past job

GooseSLURM wrapper functions

Command	Description
Gsub [...]	submit a (batch of) job(s), controlled using the provided scripts
Gdel [...]	delete a (batch of) job(s)
Gstat	list basic information of jobs
Ginfo	list basic information of all nodes
Gps	list basic information of all running processes (on the system that you are logged onto)

See Command-line tools

Monitor processes and resources

Command	Description
top	live-monitor of current running processes
ps	show snap-shot of processes
ps -aux	show snap-shot of all processes
du -h	size of directories
df -h	total, used, and available disk-space

Directory operations

Command	Description
pwd	print working (current) directory
mkdir "dir"	make new directory "dir"
cd "dir"	go to directory "dir"
cd ..	go up one directory
ls	list files
ls -lh	list files, with detailed file information

File-operations

Command	Description
cat "file"	print file content to the screen
head "file"	show first 10 line of the file content
tail "file"	show last 10 line of the file content
cp "file1" "file2"	copy "file1" to "file2"
mv "file1" "file2"	move (rename) "file1" to "file2"
rm "file"	remove "file"
rm -r "dir"	remove "dir"

Bash commands

Command	Description
whoami	show your username
man command	show manual of a command (sometimes: command -h or command --help

Search files

Command	Description
find	find files
grep	show matched pattern in file content

Keyboard shortcuts

Command	Description
Ctrl+c	abort command
Ctrl+r	search command history (use Ctrl+r to proceed to next match, and arrows to modify the command)
Ctrl+d	exit terminal

Further reading

• Linux cheat sheet