diff --git a/job_scripts/slurm/chainslurm-menu.sh b/job_scripts/slurm/chainslurm-menu.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -f  # disable filename globbing
+set -euo pipefail
+
+usage() {
+  echo "Usage: $(basename "$0") <script>"
+}
+
+if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then
+  case "$1" in
+    -h|--help)
+      usage "$0"
+      exit 0
+      ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
+  usage "$0"
+  exit 255
+fi
+
+script=$1
+if [[ ! -e $script ]]; then
+  echo "Input script does not exist: $script"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+{
+  # put the header into its own variable
+  read -r header
+  # sort the rest of the lines by job ID and put them into $job_lines, without
+  # trailing newlines
+  readarray -t job_lines < <(sort -n -)
+} < <(squeue --me -o "%8i %2t  %30j %5D %.8l %.8M %6q %10f %16R %E")
+
+job_count=${#job_lines[@]}
+
+if [[ $job_count -gt 0 ]]; then
+  #echo "Found $job_count jobs"
+  echo 'Select the starting job or enter the job ID (0 to start a new chain):'
+  echo
+  # add padding equal to the width of the select option numbers
+  # (${#job_count} gets the length of the string "$job_count")
+  printf '%*s  %s\n' ${#job_count} '' "$header"
+  PS3='> '
+  select line in "${job_lines[@]}"; do
+    # If the user entered a valid option number, the full contents of that line
+    # will be placed in $line. Otherwise, $line will be empty and the entered
+    # text will be in $REPLY.
+    if [[ -n $line ]]; then
+      oldjob=$(cut -d' ' -f1 <<<"$line")
+      echo "Starting from job $oldjob"
+      break
+    else
+      oldjob=$REPLY
+      break
+    fi
+  done
+  if [[ -z ${oldjob+x} ]]; then
+    # oldjob is unset, so the user entered ctrl-d in the select prompt
+    exit 0
+  fi
+else
+  echo 'No jobs in queue; starting a new chain...'
+  oldjob=0
+fi
+
+if [[ "$oldjob" -gt 0 ]]; then
+  IFS='|' read -r old_name old_dir < <(sacct -n -X -P --format jobname,workdir -j "$oldjob")
+
+  # check that the submission directories match
+  old_dir=$(readlink -f "$old_dir")
+  new_dir=$(readlink -f "$PWD")
+  if [[ "$old_dir" != "$new_dir" ]]; then
+    old_pretty="${old_dir/$SCRATCH/\$SCRATCH}"
+    old_pretty="${old_pretty/$HOME/\~}"
+    new_pretty="${new_dir/$SCRATCH/\$SCRATCH}"
+    new_pretty="${new_pretty/$HOME/\~}"
+    echo "Error: selected job was submitted from ${old_pretty}, but you are currently in ${new_pretty}"
+    exit 2
+  fi
+
+  # parse $script for job name and ask for confirmation if they differ
+  new_name=$(sed -En 's/^#SBATCH -J (.*)$/\1/p' "$script")
+  if [[ "$old_name" != "$new_name" ]]; then
+    echo "Warning: selected job name and new job name differ:"
+    echo "-$old_name"
+    echo "+$new_name"
+    read -r -p 'Continue [yN]? ' ok
+    case $ok in
+      y|yes|Y) ;;
+      *) exit 2 ;;
+    esac
+  fi
+
+  # check that there isn't another job that depends on the selected one
+  if depend_line=$(grep 'after\w*:'"$oldjob" <(printf '%s\n' "${job_lines[@]}")); then
+    dep_job=${depend_line%% *}
+    dep_info=${depend_line##* }
+    dep_info=${dep_info%(*)}
+    echo "Error: selected job is in the middle of a chain: job $dep_job has dependency $dep_info"
+    exit 2
+  fi
+
+  read -r -p 'How many additional jobs to chain? ' numjobs
+
+  echo "chaining $numjobs jobs starting with $oldjob"
+else
+  read -r -p 'How many jobs to chain? ' numjobs
+
+  echo "chaining $numjobs jobs"
+fi
+
+for count in $(seq 1 1 "$numjobs"); do
+  if [[ $oldjob -gt 0 ]]; then
+    echo "starting job $count to depend on $oldjob"
+    id=$(sbatch --parsable -d "afterany:${oldjob}" "${script}" | cut -d';' -f1)
+  else
+    echo "starting job $count with no dependency"
+    id=$(sbatch --parsable "${script}" | cut -d';' -f1)
+  fi
+  echo "    jobid: $id"
+  echo " "
+  oldjob=$id
+  sleep 3
+done