Patent ID: 7987455

Claim:
A method of command processing comprising: generating a first platform specific command and formatting the first platform specific command according to a generic command structure to generate a generic command, wherein the generic command structure includes a command block; establishing a connection between a command issuing computer and a command processing computer; launching a command agent at the command processing computer, wherein the command agent translates the generic command into a second platform specific command; and creating a working directory on the command processing computer based on a working directory path supplied in the command block, wherein creating the working directory includes issuing one or more commands on the remote computer to create the working directory and wherein creating the working directory is based upon, at least in part, a pathname format associated with the second platform specific format; wherein the command block includes a header, environmental settings that can be used by a shell to define particular settings at the shell, authentication information, and a footer, one of the header and the footer included in the command block include user defined information, and the authentication information included in the command block includes an account/user identification and an account/user password.