The following table shows the conventions used in syntax explanations.
Example font or symbol |
Convention |
|---|---|
| (stroke) |
Indicates delimiters between multiple items and represents the word "or". Example: "A|B|C" means "A, B, or C". |
[ ] |
Items enclosed by these brackets can be omitted. If multiple items are described, all the items are omitted or only one of them is selected. Example: [A] means either "specify nothing" or "specify A". |
{ } (curly brackets) |
One of items must be selected from among the multiple items enclosed by these brackets. Delimiters between items are indicated as |. Example: {A|B|C} means you must specify A, B, or C. |
... (dotted line) |
The item indicated immediately before this symbol can be repeated and specified multiple times. Example: "A, ..." means you can specify the items after A as many times as necessary. |
Italics |
This indicates that the item is an optional value specified by the user. |
△ |
Indicates exactly one space character. |
△n |
Indicates n or more space characters. |
~ |
This indicates that the item before this symbol should be described according to the syntax enclosed by < >, << >>, or (( )) following this symbol. |
< > |
Indicates a syntax element that must be used when specifying the item. |
<< >> |
Indicates a default value used by the system if the item is omitted. |
(( )) |
Indicates the range of values that can be specified. |
The following table shows the syntax elements that are used.
Syntax element |
Valid value |
Example |
|---|---|---|
numeric characters |
0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9 |
-- |
alphabetic characters |
A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z| a|b|c|d|e|f|g|h|i|j|k|l|m|n|o|p|q|r|s|t|u|v|w|x|y|z |
-- |
alphanumeric characters |
alphabetic-characters and numeric-characters |
-- |
hexadecimal numbers |
0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|A|B|C|D|E|F |
-- |
symbolic name |
A string of 8 or fewer uppercase alphanumeric characters and numbers beginning with an uppercase alphabetic character |
A1234567 |
PREFIX string DAD string ROUTE string ROUTELABEL string |
A string consisting of one or more parts, joined by periods (.). Each part consists of uppercase alphabetic characters or numeric characters. The first character of each part must be an uppercase alphabetic character. Each part consists of 1 to 8 characters. |
ABC.DEF |
member name string |
A string consisting of uppercase alphabetic characters, numbers, and the following special characters: dollar signs ($), number signs (#), and at signs (@) |
-- |
zFS path string |
A string of 1 to 1,023 characters, consisting of alphanumeric characters, periods (.), underscores (_), hyphens (-), and forward slashes (/) |
-- |