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Passing arguments to a root macro which is being run from a script which is passed to Condor

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#1

Hi,

I have three scripts. First off I have a submitScript.sh which creates many runScripts_X.sh and submitScripts-X.sub to pass to Condor. The submitScript.sh passes in variables to the submitScripts-X.sh and subScripts_X.sub. Here the ‘X’ is a string containing different variable names based on what variables are passed to the relevant scripts.

Inside the runScript.sh I (amongst other things) am trying to run a root macro. Normally when running the root macro it is done like this:

root -b -q 'Ratios.cxx+("STRINGNAME")'

When I am running locally (i.e on lxplus) but within the runScript.sh it is run like this:

root -b -q Ratios.cxx+(\"STRINGNAME\")

However, I am now trying to run on HTCondor and not sure how to adapt the command for the runScript.sh. I pass in the variables to the runScript.sh as follows for example STRINGNAME, so I was hoping something like:

_STRINGNAME_=STRINGNAMESED
root -b -q Ratios.cxx+(\"${_STRINGNAME_}\")

would work, but it does not. I keep getting errors like:

 condor_exec.exe: line 97: syntax error near unexpected token `('

I am not sure how to correctly pass in the variables.

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#2

I am not sure if HTCondor environment is similar to what we have in a shell script but the following is working for me.

hello.C

void hello(int i)
{
   printf("Hello %d !\n",i);
}

hello.sh

export NUM=123456
root -b -q -l 'hello.C('$NUM')'

Execution

% ./hello.sh  

Processing hello.C(123456)...
Hello 123456 !
#4

I have tried this, and other variants but it hasn’t worked :frowning:

#5

Maybe

root -b -q "Ratios.cxx+(\"${_STRINGNAME_}\")"
#6

No that doesn’t work either :frowning:

#7

Hi,

the correct way may depend on the ROOT version - which one are you using? There was a very relevant change between ROOT versions 6.16 and 6.18…
Maybe

root -b -q Ratios.cxx+\(\""$_STRINGNAME"\"\)

or

root -b -q Ratios.cxx+\(\"${_STRINGNAME}\"\)

or

root -b -q Ratios.cxx+\(\"$_STRINGNAME\"\)

could work?

#8

Hi,

are the curly brackets supposed to be missing?

#9

Yes, and I have a working example to prove it.

#10

…and what about the second ‘_’ in the variable name?

#11

Nope, that was a mistake :man_facepalming: Sorry about that.

#12

Hi,

Unfortunately none of them worked. In each instance I got the following error:

 Warning in <TApplication::GetOptions>: macro Ratios.cxx not found
#13

This is on Condor, right? Can you do ls -l right before that to ensure the Ratios.cxx exists indeed? And which ROOT version are you using?

#14

That sounds like (in addition to the paramater passing?) you have a file location problem. I.e. the file may or may not have been copied to the worker nodes.

#15

Hi,

Yes the root macro exists and is in the right place.

The problem is passing in the variables correctly due to Condor. I have no issue running the script locally, but the syntax to run on Condor is different, or at least I think it is, and so it will not run.

#16

That’s doubtful… I guess we need a minimal working example to debug things ourselves. Is it possible to provide one?

#17

See edit below!

#18

But there is no submitScriptTEST.sh attached, is there?

#19

What is the condor output is instead of calling the macro you do:

root.exe -b -l -q -e '.! ls *cxx' -e '.! pwd'
#20

It isn’t really possible to provide a minimal working example as I am running with four different scripts to produce my output. But I have provided the runscript and the ratios file. However, as I cannot upload .sh files I have changed the runScript to a .cxx file, similary for the submbitScripts I have changed their extensions. I have commented out a lot of stuff in the runScript (it won’t run anyways as the .sub script takes in a tarballed up build and source directory containing the code to run), but at least one can see what I was trying to do.

Currently everything works (i.e the parts commented out), except for running the Ratios macro

To run the script I do

source submitScript.sh

EDIT: I’ve since put the original file names back, the .sub file now has a .txt extension and everything else is .cxx (but should be .sh for the runScript and submitScript)

Ratios.cxx (5.0 KB) submitScript.txt (741 Bytes) runScript.cxx (3.5 KB) submitScript.cxx (2.8 KB)

#21

Hi,

I connected to the node that the script is running on, and as you can see the Ratios file is there from the image

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