Working with High Performance Computing (HPC) servers, I always need to submit sequential jobs or jobs with dependency. So, the job you submit stays on queue and waits for the running job to finish. I use the following command:

qsub -W depend=afterany:JOB_ID qsub_file

for example, if the running job id is 4321234, and you would like to submit myrun.qsub, the command will look like:

qsub -W depend=afterany:4321234 myrun.qsub

But sometimes you have tens of jobs you want to submit all at once. Here is a bash code you can use to submit a chain of jobs:

// File name : run_100jobs_for_me.sh
// the first job you submit
job='qsub myrun1.qsub'

// submission of the jobs 2 through 100!
for i in {2..100}
do
    job_next='qsub -W depend=afterany:$job myrun$i.qsub'
    job=$job_next
done

You can run the code above using the following command in Linux command line:

sh run_100jobs_for_me.sh

and one last point! You can set the condition in which the next job will run, simply by changing afterany in the commands above. These are the options:

// Job is scheduled if the Job JOB_ID exits without errors or is successfully completed.
afterok:JOB_ID

// Job is scheduled if the Job JOB_ID exited with errors.
afternotok:JOB_ID

// Job is scheduled if the Job JOB_ID exits with or without error
afterany:JOB_ID