Command Line Switches

Command line switches are optional parameters that you can specify when you start the Batch Facility. With command line switches, you can tell the Batch Facility:

• What input and output files to use.
• What type of output to produce.
• How to format the output.
• What type of output items to include in the output.
• What type of pivot table output to produce.
• Which pivot tables to produce.
• Which locale and language to use when producing the output.

All command line switches, except -f, apply to both modes (-f starts the Batch Facility in batch mode). Some switches are available regardless of output type; others depend on which kind of output you have requested. A summary of the switches appears in this guide. See the topic Summary for more information.

About the figures: The examples shown in the figures were produced with the following syntax, using the example Employee Data file included with IBM® SPSS® Statistics Server:

SORT CASES BY gender jobcat .
SPLIT FILE
 LAYERED BY gender jobcat .
DESCRIPTIVES
 VARIABLES=salary salbegin
 /STATISTICS=MEAN .

All examples were slightly modified in a text editor.