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Command line conventions

Parameters for running utilities from the command line can be specified in:

The following table lists the parameters that can be specified in both short and long formats:

Parameter

Short Format

Long Format

User name

-u (or -U)

-username (or -USERNAME)

User password

-p (or -P)

-password (or -PASSWORD)

Host computer

-s (or -S)

-host (or -HOST)

Source file

-src (or -SRC)

-src_file (or -SRC_FILE)

Argument file

-arg (or -ARG)

-arg_file (or -ARG_FILE)

Output file

-out (or -OUT)

-out_file (or -OUT_FILE)

Most of the examples in this book use parameters in lowercase, and are specified in the short format.

For Control-M/EM CLI utilities, write the user name in inverted commas (" "), if the username contains a space character.

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Introduction to Utilities