Any interest in this:
LJL is a job creation language that takes a job file, gathers items mentioned in its various lines and here-documents, and generates a runnable .deck file (short for “deck of cards”).
The .deck file is a complex Bash script that creates a log spool and several temporary files in /tmp/<jobname>. It automatically cleans up scratchable files after the run. The log file contains the output of each step, including any program results.
Any questions about it? Any suggestions?
I manually created a .deck file to compile and run a Fortran program with specific data and to create a .log file of all the output, the Fortran program, and the data. I found it to be picky and somewhat hard. So I thought to myself: With something like JCL, one could take simple JCL-like statements, here documents for the source and data files, and programmatically combine them to make a script like the one I created manually.