The miscellaneous commands are not associated with any command suite. The operation code indicates the action that the command performs. Miscellaneous commands have operation codes only. They consist of a paired switch and instance . An instance represents some variable piece of information that is used by the command.
Arguments can be optional or required.
Flags are always preceded by a hyphen and are always optional. This section describes the rules to follow when using AFS commands. Multiple instances of an argument are also separated by a space. Type all AFS commands on one line, followed by a carriage return. Some commands in this document appear on more than one line, but that is for legibility only.