1.1X Rescale CLI Commands

This section provides a list of various commands the Rescale CLI App supports. You can also go through the Rescale CLI Tutorial for additional information on using CLI commands. Please note the following:

  • If you set up the API key as an environment variable Simplifying CLI Commands page, you may omit [-p <api-token>] from the below commands.
  • Rescale CLI defaults to the US platform platform.rescale.com. If you are a user on any of the other global platforms (EU, JP, KR, ITAR), please specify your regional platform using the -X flag in your CLI command. For example:
PLATFORMCLI COMMAND
EUrescale-cli -X https://eu.rescale.com submit -p <api-token> -i <input-script>
Japanrescale-cli -X https://platform.rescale.jp submit -p <api-token> -i <input-script>
Korea
rescale-cli -X https://kr.rescale.com submit -p <api-token> -i <input-script>
ITARrescale-cli -X https://itar.rescale.com submit -p <api-token> -i <input-script>
  • If you wish to get help on Rescale CLI Commands, you can use the -h flag. Example – 
    rescale-cli -h

You can obtain information about Rescale Core Types and the Softwares available using the following commands and flags :

COMMANDrescale-cli list-info -<flag-type> [-p <api-token>]
FLAGS
DESCRIPTION
-cRetrieves information about RESCALE core types
-aRetrieves information about softwares available

Start a job

Creates and launches a job based on the provided flags and input script. For more information on contents of the input script, see Rescale CLI Advanced.


COMMAND		rescale-cli submit [-p <api-token>] -i <input-script-file>
FLAGS
DESCRIPTION
1) -q or --quietSuppresses all logging output that would normally go to STDOUT. This is useful when piping the script output to another script.
2) -E or --end-to-endRuns the job end-to-end : uploading input files, submitting the job, monitoring for the results and downloading the results files.
3) -f <file1> <file2> ... <fileN>Filter output files to be downloaded after the job finishes. This flag can be used with submit only while running an end-to-end job.
4) -J-Djava.io.tmpdir=<directory>Specify output directory for temporary files.

Stop a job

Submits a request to cleanly shutdown the currently running job

COMMANDrescale-cli stop [-p <api-token>] -j <job-id>

Delete a job

Submits a request to delete a completed job

COMMANDrescale-cli delete [-p <api-token>] -j <job-id>

Check job status

Requests the specified job’s status. Place in a loop to monitor continuously. It is recommended that an exponential backoff algorithm is used to monitor jobs that take long.


COMMAND		rescale-cli status [-p <api-token>] -j <job-id>

Download files from a completed job

Downloads all the result files after the job run.

COMMANDrescale-cli sync [-p <api-token>] -j <job-id>

FLAGS		DESCRIPTION
-s <file1> <file2> ... <fileN>Output file filtering using “string pattern matching” searching.
(Since it happens on the server side, searching more robust
and faster – Recommended)
-f <file1> <file2> ... <fileN>Output file filtering using “glob” (Happens on the client side).
*is a wildcard that will match any string of characters and
? is a wildcard that will match any single character
Note: This works best in bash, other shells may not work
--exclude <file1>,<file2>, ... ,<fileN>Excludes the specified files from downloading.
-n <job-id>
To sync all jobs newer than a specific job. App will create
individual directories as – rescale_job_<job-ID>
-d <sync-time>For continuous syncing, the user may specify a
sync time. The time in seconds would determine
the delay time between two sync attempts

Download files from a running job

Downloads a specific file from a running job. It downloads a copy of the file (that exists at that time) to the user’s local directory in which they executed the command. Second, it will append a time stamp to the file name, the filename will be formatted as “download_{timestamp}_{original_filename}”.


COMMAND		rescale-cli download-file [-p <api_key>] -j <job_id> -f <filename>
FLAGSDESCRIPTION
-f <file1> <file2> ... <fileN>Output file filtering using “string pattern matching”
(Happens on the client side)

Upload files to Rescale cloud storage

COMMANDrescale-cli upload -p <api-token> -f <file1> ... <fileN>
FLAGSDESCRIPTION
-eTo see an extended set of metadata during upload
--quiet
To suppress non-json output from the command, if the CLI is being embedded in a larger script.