A better method to achieve this is to use [SLURM job arrays](https://slurm.schedmd.com/job_array.html)
**Sequential File Names**
If your input files are named sequentially, then you can utilize the environment variable ${SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID} to submit different files in different array tasks.
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* %a in the #SBATCH line becomes the array index
* ${SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID} is a shell variable that is set when the job runs, and each array task has unique value: 1, 2, .., 5
*Usage:*
```
./prep_env seq
sbatch array_seq.job
```
**Random File Name**
Well, job arrays are great if your files are named sequentially (e.g. test1, test2, etc). But what if they're not? One can use both shell arrays + SLURM arrays to solve this.