Software Distributor Administration Guide (March 2009)

-v Turns on verbose output to stdout. (The
swmodify logfile is not affected by this option.)
-V Lists all the SD layout_versions this
command supports.
-a attribute=value Add, change, or deletes the attribute value.
Otherwise, it adds/changes the attribute for each
software_selection by setting it to the given
value.
Multiple -a options can be specified. Each
attribute modification will be applied to every
software_selection.
The -s and -a options are mutually exclusive:
the -s option cannot be specified when the -a
option is specified.
You cannot use the -a option to change the
following attributes: tag, revision,
instance_id, vendor_tag, corequisite or
prerequisite.
-c catalog
Writes full catalog structure information into the
directory specified by catalog. All attributes
down to the file level and control scripts are
written. See “Requesting User Responses
(swask)” (page 291).
-C session_file
Run the command and save the current option
and operand values to a session_file for reuse in
another session. See “Session Files” (page 51).
-f software_file
Read a list of software selections from a separate
file instead of (or in addition to) the command
line. See “Software Files” (page 49).
-P pathname_file
Specifies a file containing the pathnames of files
being added to or deleted from the IPD.
-sproduct_specification_file
The source Product Specification File (PSF)
describes the product, subproduct, fileset, and/or
file definitions that will be added or modified by
swmodify.
If you specify a
product_specification_file, swmodify
selects the individual software_selections
from the full set that is defined in the PSF. If no
software_selections are specified, then
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