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Command conventions
Command conventions help you understand command meanings. Commands in HP product manuals
comply with the conventions listed in Table 1.
Table 1 Command conventions
Convention Descri
tion
Boldface Bold text represents commands and keywords you enter literally as shown.
Italic Italic text represents arguments you replace with actual values.
[ ] Square brackets enclose syntax choices (keywords or arguments) that are optional.
{ x | y | ... }
Braces enclose a set of required syntax choices separated by vertical bars, from which
you select one.
[ x | y | ... ]
Square brackets enclose a set of optional syntax choices separated by vertical bars, from
which you select one or none.
{ x | y | ... } *
Asterisk marked braces enclose a set of required syntax choices separated by vertical
bars, from which you select at least one.
[ x | y | ... ] *
Asterisk marked square brackets enclose optional syntax choices separated by vertical
bars, from which you select one choice, multiple choices, or none.
&<1-n>
The argument or keyword and argument combination before the ampersand (&) sign can
be entered 1 to n times.
# A line that starts with a pound (#) sign is comments.
NOTE:
The keywords of HP command lines are case insensitive.
Use clock datetime time date as an example to understand the meaning of the command line parameters
according to Figure 2.
Figure 2 Read command line parameters
For example, enter the following at the CLI of your device and press Enter to set the device system time to 10
o’clock 30 minutes 20 seconds, February 23, 2010.
<sysname> clock datetime 10:30:20 2/23/2010
Read any command that is more complicated by referring to Table 1.
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