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start adding small utilities for Slurm clusters #19

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The sa-show* scripts are just wrappers for the corresponding sacctmgr show invocations with predefined output formats. The default output formats contain superfluous fields, or skip some fields, or use field widths that are too short (truncating essential information) or too long (wasting screen estate).

If someone has a better idea for naming these utilties, please go ahead and change them. Thanks.

The `sa-show*` scripts are just wrappers for the corresponding
`sacctmgr show` invocations with predefined output formats. The
default output formats contain superfluous fields, or skip some
fields, or use field widths that are too short (truncating essential
information) or too long (wasting screen estate).

If someone has a better idea for naming these utilties, please
go ahead and change them. Thanks.
... which all run a single sacctmgr command in roughly the same way.

I'm not sure which approach is more maintainable. They probably both
have their advantages.
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@ikirker I think it's a good idea to keep these in one script, perhaps in the future there'll be some shared logic e.g. the field width for accounts etc.

There's a rather hypothetical name clash with sshow from the dsniff package ("Tools for network auditing and penetration testing"), available in EPEL, and also I'm fond of short names, so how about sls ("slurm list")?

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No, something that short looks like a more fundamental Unix command, and the Slurm commands have vowels.

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