diff --git a/importexp b/importexp
index 923b4ae3c78ac9d3f355e16b65631ec9fdafab7d..cf2990ee052abd1cba3ebe43a45cf7f0162317cb 100755
--- a/importexp
+++ b/importexp
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ cd '$WORK_DIR'
     ' $RUN_FILE)
 
     SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES=$(perl -ne 'if(/^\s*#SBATCH\s+(--nodes|-N)(=|\s+)(\d+)/) {print($3); exit}' $RUN_FILE)
-    SLURM_NODELIST="n[00001-$SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES]"
+    SLURM_NODELIST="n[1-$SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES]"
     # SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE is defined above
     export SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES SLURM_NODELIST SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE