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condor: unmatched quotes when submitting bash jobs

I wrote a conder script for a job and use condor_submit to submit this job. Below is my script:

Executable=/bin/bash
Arguments=" -c "" command_to_run -d -f"" "

initialdir= /path/
output=/path/out
error=/path/err
log=/path/log
universe = vanilla 
Getenv = true
Queue

As seen above, the executable is bash and I use -c to pass the command as a string to bash. The job gets submitted fine, but I get the following error message in err output file:

command_to_run: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
command_to_run: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

This is simply bash complaining about unmatched double quotes. But double quotes look fine to me. I don't know what the problem is. It seems like it is a condor problem. Any ideas?

Solution

  • If you're just passing -c to bash then single quoting should be sufficient (unless you're trying to embed variables):

    Arguments=" -c 'command_to_run -d -f' "