Editing CDS Control Program Commands

To abbreviate any command name, type only the first four characters. You can abbreviate a command name to fewer than four characters as long as the abbreviated name remains unique among all command names in the control program. For example, the following commands are equivalent:

cdscp> show directory /.:/sales
cdscp> sh dir /.:/sales

To continue a long command line onto the next line, type a space and then a backslash (\) at the end of the first line, for example:

cdscp> set link /.:/sales CDS_LinkTimeout \
> (1991-12-31-12:00:00 090-00:00:00)

To add a comment, use the # (number sign). Everything following the # character on a line is ignored.

To redirect output to a file, most UNIX shell users can type >filename at the shell prompt. To redirect output of error text to a file, most UNIX shell users can type >&filename at the shell prompt.

For example, the following command redirects the display produced by the show directory command to a new text file named directory_names:

$ cdscp show directory /.:/* >directory_names