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Filename pattern#

sbatch allows for a filename pattern to contain one or more replacement symbols, which are a percent sign "%" followed by a letter (e.g. %j).

Symbol
%% The character "%".
%A Job array's master job allocation number.
%a Job array ID (index) number.
%J jobid.stepid of the running job. (e.g. "128.0")
%j jobid of the running job.
%N short hostname. This will create a separate IO file per node.
%n Node identifier relative to current job (e.g. "0" is the first node of the running job) This will create a separate IO file per node.
%s stepid of the running job.
%t task identifier (rank) relative to current job. This will create a separate IO file per task.
%u User name.
%x Job name.