Using auxiliary files in a manual batch job submission

Deadline
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I know you can do a batch submission manually by creating a temp file with the following lines it:

-SubmitMultipleJobs
-job
\\path\to\job_1_info_file.txt
\\path\to\job_1_plugin_file.txt
-job
\\path\to\job_2_info_file.txt
\\path\to\job_2_plugin_file.txt
-job
\\path\to\job_3_info_file.txt
\\path\to\job_3_plugin_file.txt

Then you just pass the temp file to deadlinecommand.

This worked really well for a series of ffmpeg jobs I submitted. However, I now want to do the same with a Python job. A Python job does require an auxiliary file, which is the actual script you want to run on the nodes. I have been looking in the docs, but I cannot figure out how to do it. When you submit from the command line, you can include auxiliary files in the command.

Thanks!

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Just keep on adding the aux. files to the -job lists as you would in a command line…

I just took a Max submission, modified the initialArgsFile.txt to contain two -job entries, and executing deadlineCommand with it submitted both jobs (granted, it is the same job twice, but it will work with any files):

-SubmitMultipleJobs
-job
C:\Users\Borislav\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline10\temp\1_12_2018_3_55_10_PM\max_submit_info.job
C:\Users\Borislav\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline10\temp\1_12_2018_3_55_10_PM\max_job_info.job
C:\Users\Borislav\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline10\temp\1_12_2018_3_55_10_PM\untitled.max
-job
C:\Users\Borislav\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline10\temp\1_12_2018_3_55_10_PM\max_submit_info.job
C:\Users\Borislav\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline10\temp\1_12_2018_3_55_10_PM\max_job_info.job
C:\Users\Borislav\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline10\temp\1_12_2018_3_55_10_PM\untitled.max

In my case, the .max scene file was the extra auxiliary file. In your case, it would be the python script…