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Quantum DXi-Series Command Line Interface (CLI) Guide
6-67081-02 Rev A
July 2011
CLI Special Options
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CLI Special Options
Every command can accept these options:
• --outfile <output_filename>
• --errfile [<error_filename>]
• --file <options_filename>
• --ws [<ws_server>[:<port>]
The first two options are supported because the shell capability of redirecting
the standard output and standard error using the “>” character is forbidden in
the restricted shell.
CLI command options:
•
--outfile
specifies that the standard output will be saved to file
<
output_filename
>.
•
--errfile
specifies that the standard error will be saved to file
<
error_filename
>. If <
error_filename
> is not specified, it will be saved to
the same <
output_filename
>.
The third option is supported to avoid the problem of quoting and/or escaping
special characters. The option
--file
tells the program to open the file
<
options_filename
> to read additional options, where each option (or each
option=value
pair if the option requires a value) is listed on a separate line.
Blank lines or lines starting with “#” are ignored. For example, the command
syscli --add share --name abc --proto cifs
is functionally equivalent to any of the following commands:
1 syscli --file <myfile>
where
<myfile>
is a file containing the following:
‐‐
add=share
‐‐
name=abc
‐‐
proto=cifs
2 syscli --add share --file <file1>
where
<file1>
is a file containing the following:
‐‐
name=abc
‐‐
proto=cifs
3 syscli --add share --file <file2> --proto cifs
where
<file2>
is a file containing the following:
‐‐
name=abc