# qmove

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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STANDARD ERROR
EXIT STATUS
SEE ALSO

## NAME

| qmove - move pbs batch job

## SYNOPSIS

| qmove destination job_identifier ...

## DESCRIPTION

| To move a job is to remove the job from the queue in which it resides and instantiate the job in another queue. The qmove command issues a Move Job batch request to the batch server that currently owns each job specified by job_identifier.

| A job in the Running , Transiting , or Exiting state cannot be moved.

## OPERANDS

| The first operand is the new destinationfor queue @server queue@server See the PBS ERS section , "Destination Identifiers".

| If the destination operand describes only a queue, then qmove will move jobs into the queue of the specified name at the job's current server.

| If the destination operand describes only a batch server, then qmove will move jobs into the default queue at that batch server.

| If the destination operand describes both a queue and a batch server, then qmove will move the jobs into the specified queue at the specified server.

| All following operands are job_identifiers which specify the jobs to be moved to the new destination. The qmove command accepts one or more job_identifier operands of the form: sequence_number[.server_name][@server]

## STANDARD ERROR

| The qmove command will write a diagnostic messages to standard error for each error occurrence.

## EXIT STATUS

| Upon successful processing of all the operands presented to the the qmove command, the exit status will be a value of zero.

| If the qmove command fails to process any operand, the command exits with a value greater than zero.

## SEE ALSO

| qsub(1B) , pbs_movejob(3B)