[asdff]

Watch is great if you are using an hpc cluster as well. Our workload manager is slurm, so 'watch -n5 squeue -u my_username' is a great way to keep track of the progress of batch jobs submitted to a compute node. I put it in an alias.

[_fullpint]

Thank you — I’ve often times had to run things interactively and this would have saved me so much time and stress.

[gwenzek]

This is a bad practice. squeue will hit the scheduler directly. If a lot of people do that your scheduler will be busy answering squeue calls, not scheduling. (Saying this just in case we are working on the same cluster ^^)