 bsub get job stdout and stderr

ID: bsub-get-job-stdout-and-stderr

Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-26  +Created 1970-01-01

By default, LSF only sends you an email with the stdout and stderr included in it, and does not show or store anything locally.

One option to store things locally is to use:

bsub -oo stdout.log -eo stderr.log 'echo myout; echo myerr 1>&2'

as documented at:

Or to use files with the job id in them:

bsub -oo %J.out -eo %J.err 'echo myout; echo myerr 1>&2'

By default bsub -oo:

also contains the LSF metadata in addition to the actual submitted process stdout
prevents the completion email from being sent

To get just the stdout to the file, use bsub -N -oo which:

as mentioned at:

Another option is to run with the bsub -I option:

bsub -I 'echo a;sleep 1;echo b;sleep 1;echo c'

This immediately prints stdout and stderr to the terminal.

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