Software Distributor Administrator Guide (September 2010)

when no host is specified, the relative_path must start with ./ or ../;
otherwise, the specified name is considered as a host.
• The internet address can be in IPv4 format with dot notation or in IPv6 format.
When IPv6 internet address is specified, it can be optionally enclosed within square
brackets [ and ].
• The : (colon) is required if you specify both a host and directory.
• On some systems, the @ character is used as the kill function. Type stty on your
system to see if the @ character is mapped to any other function on your system.
If it is, remove the mapping, change the mapping, or use \@.
1.4.2.2 Target Files
To keep the command line shorter, target selection input files let you specify long lists
of targets. With a target selection file, you only have to specify the single file name.
The -t command-line option lets you specify a target file. For example:
swinstall -f mysoft -s /mnt/cd -t mytargs
In this example, the file mytargs (which resides in the current working directory)
contains a list of target selections for the swinstall command.
In the target file, blank lines and comments (lines beginning with #) are ignored. Each
target selection must be specified on a separate line and must consist of a host name
or network address, optionally followed by a colon and a full path:
host[:/directory]
1.4.3 Using Command Options
You can control many SD-UX command policies and behaviors by setting the
appropriate command options. You can change the default values of options using
predefined files or values you specify directly on the command-line. Altering default
values with files can help when you don’t want to specify command behavior every
time you invoke the command.
These rules govern the way the defaults work:
1. Options in /var/adm/sw/defaults affect all SD-UX commands on that system.
This file can change the default behavior for all commands to which an option
applies or for specific commands only.
2. Options in your personal $HOME/.swdefaults file affect only you and not the
entire system.
3. Options read from a session file affect only that session.
4. Options changed on the command line by the -X option_file or the
-xoption=value arguments override the system-wide and personal options
files but affect only that invocation of the command.
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