diff --git a/sge/grepper.sge b/sge/grepper.sge
index 9344b08..5bc79b7 100755
--- a/sge/grepper.sge
+++ b/sge/grepper.sge
@@ -7,4 +7,6 @@ set -o nounset
 
 printenv
 
-"$BASEDIR/ExtensionCrawler/grepper" -a "$ARCHIVE" -n $SGE_TASK_ID -N $MAX_SGE_TASK_ID "$PATTERN" | bzip2 > "$BASEDIR/out/$SGE_TASK_ID.bz2"
+echo "The following parameter were passed: $*"
+
+"$BASEDIR/ExtensionCrawler/grepper" -a "$ARCHIVE" -n $SGE_TASK_ID -N $MAX_SGE_TASK_ID $* | bzip2 > "$BASEDIR/out/$SGE_TASK_ID.bz2"
diff --git a/sge/grepper.sh b/sge/grepper.sh
index 5284718..88b7c12 100755
--- a/sge/grepper.sh
+++ b/sge/grepper.sh
@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@
 set -o nounset
 set -o errexit
 
-PATTERN=$1
+NRJOBS=${NRJOBS:-256}
+echo "Using $NRJOBS jobs"
 
-ARCHIVE=${2:-$(ssh sharc.shef.ac.uk find /shared/brucker_research1/Shared/BrowserExtensions/.snapshot -maxdepth 1 -name \"D*\" | sort -r | head -n1)}
-echo "Using archive $ARCHIVE"
+ARCHIVE=${ARCHIVE:-$(ssh sharc.shef.ac.uk find /shared/brucker_research1/Shared/BrowserExtensions/.snapshot -maxdepth 1 -name \"D*\" | sort -r | head -n1)}
+echo "Using archive: $ARCHIVE"
 
-TARGETDIR="${3:-/data/\$USER}/grepper-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)"
+TARGETDIR="${TARGETDIR:-/data/\$USER}/grepper-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)"
+echo "Using target dir: $TARGETDIR"
 BASEDIR=$( cd $(dirname "$0"); cd ..; pwd -P )
 
 echo "Creating dirs ..."
@@ -16,17 +18,17 @@ ssh sharc.shef.ac.uk mkdir -p $TARGETDIR/logs
 ssh sharc.shef.ac.uk mkdir -p $TARGETDIR/out
 
 echo "Pushing $BASEDIR to sharc.shef.ac.uk:$TARGETDIR/ExtensionCrawler ..."
-rsync -zr "$BASEDIR/" sharc.shef.ac.uk:"$TARGETDIR/ExtensionCrawler"
+rsync -zr --exclude "$BASEDIR/archive" "$BASEDIR/" sharc.shef.ac.uk:"$TARGETDIR/ExtensionCrawler"
 
 echo "Starting job ..."
 ssh sharc.shef.ac.uk \
   ARCHIVE=\"$ARCHIVE\" \
   BASEDIR=\"$TARGETDIR\" \
-  PATTERN=\"$PATTERN\" \
-  MAX_SGE_TASK_ID=256 \
+  MAX_SGE_TASK_ID=\"$NRJOBS\" \
   qsub \
   -V \
-  -t 1-256 \
+  -t 1-$NRJOBS \
   -j yes \
   -o "$TARGETDIR/logs" \
-  "$TARGETDIR/ExtensionCrawler/sge/grepper.sge"
+  "$TARGETDIR/ExtensionCrawler/sge/grepper.sge" \
+  $*