Quantum DXi-Series Command Line Interface (CLI) Guide
6-66538-03 Rev C
November 2010
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CLI Help Commands
tokens, it must be quoted to prevent the shell from interpreting it as separate
tokens. For example:
syscli --add share .... --desc 'This is a test share'
In addition, if a provided value contains characters that are special to the shell,
these characters must be escaped correctly so that the shell treats them as
regular characters. For example,
syscli --add share .... --desc Testing\!
Note:
The shell used in the CLI user accounts is the
bash
shell. The set of
special characters are the same characters that
bash
treats as special
characters. Refer to the
bash
shell documentation (
www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html
) for the set of
special characters interpreted by the shell. If you do not want the shell
to interpret any special characters, use single quotes (‘).
CLI Help Commands
The following help commands are available:
• Typing
syscli
alone will display a summary of help commands.
• Typing
syscli help
will show syntax for all
syscli
commands.
• Typing
syscli help
VTL|REPLICATION|NAS|OST|CLUSTER|UTILITY|SNMP|NETWORK|EMAIL
|PTT
will show syntax for all VTL, replication, NAS (Network Attached
Storage), OST (Open Storage Technology), cluster, utility, SNMP, network,
email, and PTT commands respectively.
• Typing
syscli help --<cmd>
will show syntax for all commands named
<cmd>. For example,
syscli help --list
shows all list commands,
syscli help
--add
shows all
--add
commands.
• Typing
syscli help --<cmd> <subcmd>
will show detailed help for this
specific command. For example,
syscli help --list nas
shows the complete
help for the
--list nas
command.
CLI Special Options
Every command can accept these options:
--outfile <output_filename>
--errfile [<error_filename>]
--file <options_filename>
