NAME

       condor_wait - HTCondor Manual

       Wait for jobs to finish

SYNOPSIS

       condor_wait [-help | -version ]

       condor_wait [-debug ] [-status ] [-echo ] [-wait seconds] [-num number-of-jobs] log-file [job ID ]

DESCRIPTION

       condor_wait  watches a job event log file (created with the log command within a submit description file)
       and returns when one or more jobs from the log have completed or aborted.

       Because condor_wait expects to find at least one job submitted event in the log file, at  least  one  job
       must have been successfully submitted with condor_submit before condor_wait is executed.

       condor_wait will wait forever for jobs to finish, unless a shorter wait time is specified.

OPTIONS

          -help  Display usage information

          -version
                 Display version information

          -debug Show extra debugging information.

          -status
                 Show job start and terminate information.

          -echo  Print the events out to stdout.

          -wait seconds
                 Wait no more than the integer number of seconds. The default is unlimited time.

          -num number-of-jobs
                 Wait for the integer number-of-jobs jobs to end. The default is all jobs in the log file.

          log file
                 The name of the log file to watch for information about the job.

          job ID A specific job or set of jobs to watch.
                  If the job ID is only the job ClassAd attribute ClusterId, then condor_wait waits for all jobs
                 with  the  given  ClusterId.  If  the  job ID is a pair of the job ClassAd attributes, given by
                 ClusterId.ProcId, then condor_wait waits for the specific job with this job ID.  If this option
                 is not specified, all jobs that exist in the log file  when  condor_wait  is  invoked  will  be
                 watched.

GENERAL REMARKS

       condor_wait  is an inexpensive way to test or wait for the completion of a job or a whole cluster, if you
       are trying to get a process outside of HTCondor to synchronize with a job or set of jobs.

       It can also be used to wait for the completion of a limited subset of jobs, via the -num option.

EXAMPLES

          $ condor_wait logfile

       This command waits for all jobs that exist in logfile to complete.

          $ condor_wait logfile 40

       This command waits for all jobs that exist in logfile with a job ClassAd attribute  ClusterId  of  40  to
       complete.

          $ condor_wait -num 2 logfile

       This command waits for any two jobs that exist in logfile to complete.

          $ condor_wait logfile 40.1

       This command waits for job 40.1 that exists in logfile to complete.

          $ condor_wait -wait 3600 logfile 40.1

       This  waits  for  job 40.1 to complete by watching logfile, but it will not wait more than one hour (3600
       seconds).

EXIT STATUS

       condor_wait exits with 0 if and only if the specified job or jobs have completed or aborted.  condor_wait
       returns 1 if unrecoverable errors occur, such as a missing log file, if the job does not exist in the log
       file, or the user-specified waiting time has expired.

AUTHOR

       HTCondor Team

COPYRIGHT

       1990-2024,  Center  for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-
       Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

                                                  Jun 20, 2025                                    CONDOR_WAIT(1)