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Options
As a special notation, most MKS Toolkit commands let you specify --
to separate the options from the non-option arguments; -- says,
`There are no more options'. Therefore, if you really do have a
directory named -d and want to list its contents, you could say
lc -- -d
With the MKS Toolkit, you can specify more than one simple option
to a command. For example, -c and -n are both simple options that
can be specified with the pg command. You could say
pg -c -n file
or you could combine the two options into
pg -cn file
The order of combined options is not important;
pg -nc file
is equivalent to the previous version of the command.
In addition to simple options, some commands accept options that
have accompanying values. Such options look like simple options
followed by additional information. This information may be a
number, a string, the name of a file, or something else.
If you read the pg reference page in the online MKS Toolkit Utilities
Reference, you can see that pg accepts an option of the form
-p prompt
When the reference pages show part of a command line in italics, the
italicized material is just a placeholder; when you actually use the
command, you should fill in something else in its place. In this case,
the prompt should be a string of characters, enclosed in single quotes.
For example, in the command
pg -p 'More?' file
the prompt string is More? If you execute the above command, you can
see that pg prints out
More?
when it pauses at the end of a screen, instead of the usual :. In other
words, the -p prompt option lets you set pg's prompt.
The help command lists information about MKS Toolkit commands.
Specify the name of the command to help as:
help command
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