Command syntax conventions

The following conventions are used for the scripting commands.

• UPPERCASE letters indicate syntax that must be typed exactly as shown.
• lowercase italic blue letters are variables such as file names, user names, or machine names.
• Angle brackets, < and >, surround required items that must be supplied with the command.
• Square brackets, [ and ], surround optional items that can be supplied with the command but are not required.
• The pipe character, |, separates items in a list.

• Identifiers that contain a space or non-alphanumeric characters must be enclosed in quotation marks. For example "this is a password" or "machine name." The only exception is IP addresses which do not need to be enclosed in quotation marks.

  You can specify an IP address or an IP address:port combination (separated by a colon) in place of a machine name in any DTCL command that allows for the entry of a machine name. For example, all of the following login commands are acceptable.

  • login alpha root ********
  • login 216.234.244.47 root ********
  • login 216.234.244.47:1205 root ********

  If you have modified your ports so that your source, target and/or clients are running on different ports and you are using DTCL scripts, then you will need to modify the scripts to include the port values as noted above. This only applies to source/target/client combinations that are communicating with each other on different ports.