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The ? wildcard can also be used to perform more complex searches. For example, typing get?info
produces a list of all commands that start with the “get” token, and have the “info” token after it. The
output would be:

.

.

.

GetDpmInfo

GetMigrationInfo

GetMyHostInfo

GetSnapcloneGroupInfo

GetSnapcloneTaskInfo

GetSyncMirrorGroupInfo

GetVDGroupInfo

** End of listing **

NOTE:

The search is not case sensitive.

Summary of special symbols

Table 2 Special symbols

Where used

Purpose

Symbol

At the beginning of a line in the input file,
followed by a space

A comment line

# (hash)

Before the end of a line mark (carriage return
and line feed)

A line continuation mark that allows the
command to continue to the next input line

~ (tilde)

Between arguments

Separates command arguments

, (comma)

Immediately precedes argument names

Marks argument names

- (dash)

Immediately precedes value names (where
used)

Identifies value names in case of some pre-
defined arguments that have a multiple
number of strings

_ (underscore)

Enclose names that contain white spaces in
them, or numbers with a decimal symbol

Identifies strings containing white spaces as
one entry, or numbers with a decimal symbol
(which is geographic region-dependent)

“ “ (quotation
marks)

Used as a wildcard when listing CLI com-
mand names in console mode

Search and listing symbol for CLI command
names

? (question
mark)

Returned execution status

When invoking the vsm_cli command from a batch file, an execution status is returned. If no error
occurred, the returned status is zero. Otherwise, the returned status is a positive integer representing
the error code (a detailed error description can be found in the VSM API output file for this run).

Using the VSM command line interface

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