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Specifying shell command options z/OS UNIX System Services User's Guide SA23-2279-00 |
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Most of the commands discussed in this topic accept options.
Shell command options are usually specified by a minus sign (–) followed by a single character. For example, the ls command
simply lists a directory's contents in multiple columns on your screen.
However:
distinguishes between various file
types when listing the contents of a directory. (See Listing directory contents for
an example.)
lists directory names in a single
column.Options consisting of a minus sign followed by a character are
called simple options. You specify simple
options after the name of the command and before any other arguments
for the command (that is, arguments that are not options). For example,
you would enter:
to list the contents
of dir1 in a single column.Command options and arguments must be typed as single-byte characters. Additionally, delimiters such as a slash, braces, and parentheses must be typed as single-byte characters. The order of options and arguments is important.
If you enter:
ls lists the contents
of dir1 and then tries to list the contents
of the directory, or attributes of the file, called –F.As a special notation, most z/OS shell commands let you specify a double
minus sign (--) to separate the options from the nonoption arguments; -- means that
there are no more options. Thus, if you really have a directory named –F, you could enter:
to
list the contents of that directory or the file attributes.The z/OS shell gives you a shorthand way to specify more than one simple
option to a command. For example, –t and –v are
both simple options that you can specify with the cat command.
(To find out what these options do, read the cat command description in z/OS UNIX System Services Command Reference.) You
could enter:
or you could combine
the two options into:
The order of the
options is not important:
is equivalent
to the previous version of the command. |
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