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MSI Environment Aliases and Variables

The following aliases have been made available for users; we advise using them in place of file paths to the project space or home directory wherever possible. They can be utilized on login nodes and within job scripts, or for quick navigation on Tier 1 storage.

Built-in Aliases

Users may type any of these commands to perform the described action.

Alias

Navigate to …

Example path

cd

User home directory

/users/[0-9]/<UMN InternetID>/

msiproject

MSI project root directory

/projects/standard/<project name>/

shared

MSI shared directory

/projects/standard/<project name>/shared/

oldhome

Old home directory

/projects/standard/<project name>/<UMN InternetID>/

scratch scratch.global

Scratch global

/scratch.global/

scratch.local

Scratch local

/scratch.local/

Environment Variables

Variable

Expands to …

$HOME

/users/[0-9]/<UMN InternetID>/

$MSIPROJECT

/projects/standard/<project name>/

$OLDHOME

/projects/standard/<project name>/<UMN InternetID>/

$SHARED

/projects/standard/<project name>/shared

$PUBLIC

/projects/standard/<project name>/public

$SCRATCH $SCRATCH_GLOBAL

/scratch.global/

$SCRATCH_LOCAL

/scratch.local/

$USER

<UMN InternetID>

Note Users that join MSI before September 2024 will have an old home directory. Users since then can create their own home directory in the shared space using the command mkdir -v $SHARED/$USER.

See the New Home Directories knowledge base article for migration details

Slurm Environment Variables

While a job is running, there are more variables that can be referenced.