Preface
Documentation Conventions
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What are
shortcut keys
?
To enter the date, type
mm/dd/yyyy
(where
mm
is the month,
dd
is the
day, and
yyyy
is the year).
Topic titles between quotation marks identify related topics either within this
manual or in the online help, which is also referred to as
the help system
throughout this document.
Command line interface (CLI) command syntax conventions include the
following:
Plain text indicates items that you must type as shown. For example:
qaucli -pr nic -ei
< >
(angle brackets) indicate a variable whose value you must
specify. For example:
<serial_number>
[ ]
(square brackets) indicate an optional parameter. For example:
[<file_name>]
means specify a file name, or omit it to select
the default file name.
|
(vertical bar) indicates mutually exclusive options; select one option
only. For example:
on|off
1|2|3|4
...
(ellipsis) indicates that the preceding item may be repeated. For
example:
x...
means
one
or more instances of
x
.
[x...]
means
zero
or more instances of
x
.
( )
(parentheses) and
{ }
(braces) are used to avoid logical
ambiguity. For example:
a|b c
is ambiguous
{(a|b) c}
means
a
or
b
, followed by
c
{a|(b c)}
means either
a,
or
b c
NOTE
For CLI commands only, variable names are always indicated
using angle brackets instead of
italics
.
