The miscellaneous commands are not associated with any command suite. The operation code indicates the action that the command will perform. Miscellaneous commands have operation codes only. They consist of a paired switch and instance . An instance represents some variable piece of information that will be used by the command.
Arguments can be optional or required.
Flags are always preceded by a hyphen and are always optional. This document uses the following typeface conventions. Command and option names appear in bold type in syntax definitions, examples, and running text. Variable information appears in italic type . This includes user-supplied information on command lines and the parts of prompts that differ depending on who issues the command.