I recently became slightly annoyed with the information being displayed by PBS's qstat command.  My main issue was that a simple qstat tends to cut off job names, which are very important if you're running multiple jobs with long, similar names that can't be distinguished when trimmed.  The other extreme, qstat -f, prints way too much information that's difficult to efficiently navigate through.

There's probably an option flag that's midway between the two, but it seemed like a fun idea to write a simple intercepting script that only printed a couple things I found useful.

First, here's the first few lines of one job from the output of qstat -f to give you an idea of what the script is working with:

Job Id: 54314.master.localdomain
    Job_Name = df-AC6hex-N2-h2-HSE1PBE-opt-gdv
    Job_Owner = bw@master.localdomain
    resources_used.cput = 113:03:48
    resources_used.mem = 3177372kb
    resources_used.vmem = 4856612kb
    resources_used.walltime = 118:20:42
    job_state = R
    queue = verylong
    ...

In the output, each job is separated by a blank line.  So, here's a python script that strips away some of the unneeded info, while printing the full job name:

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#! /usr/bin/python
 
import subprocess
 
# get user name
user = subprocess.check_output(['whoami']).strip()
# get all jobs data
out = subprocess.check_output(['qstat','-f'])
lines = out.split('\n')
 
# build list of jobs, each job is a dictionary
jobs = []
for line in lines:
    if "Job Id:" in line:  # new job
        job = {}
        s = line.split(":")
        job_id = s[1].split('.')[0].strip()
        job[s[0].strip()] = job_id
    if '=' in line:
        s = line.split("=")
        job[s[0].strip()] = s[1].strip()
    elif line == '':
        jobs.append(job)
 
# print out useful information about user's jobs
print "\n   " + user + "'s jobs:\n"
for job in jobs:
    if job['Job_Owner'].split('@')[0] == user:        
        print "   " +  job['Job_Name']
        print "   Id: " + job['Job Id']
        print "   Wall time: " + job['resources_used.walltime']
        print "   State: " + job['job_state']
        print

Snippet of example output:

   bw's jobs:

   df-AC6hex-N2-h2-HSE1PBE-opt-gdv
   Id: 54314
   Wall time: 118:20:42
   State: R

   df-AC6hex-N2-h1b-HSE1PBE-opt-gdv
   Id: 54317
   Wall time: 118:13:38
   State: R

   df-AC6hex-N2-h2b-HSE1PBE-opt-gdv
   Id: 54321
   Wall time: 118:13:39
   State: R

   ...

The output of the command qstat -f is captured by python via the subprocess.check_output() function and organized into a dictionary, which allows for easy customization of what's printed out.  After that, it's just some basic string processing and printing.  Note also that it only prints information about the jobs of the user who is running the script.