Watchguard V10 Command Line Interface Manual page 40

CHAPTER 2: Administration Mode Commands
tion to the text notation introduced in "CLI Guide text con-
ventions" on page 3.
Convention
<text>
-<text>
[text]
{text}
itemA | itemB
itemA &| itemB
[item_A, item_B,
item_C]
+ item
no
\
If you enter a command in the CLI, such as the following:
WG(config)#policy
and press <ENTER> without adding any arguments to the
command line, the WatchGuard CLI will display a com-
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Description
All required text is enclosed in angle brackets.
Some arguments must be preceded by a hyphen
("-"). If a hyphen is required, but you do not use
it to precede the argument, that argument will be
dropped.
Optional text is enclosed in square brackets.
Text wrapped in curly braces is optional, usually
representing qualifications or values related to an
argument.
Text items separated by a pipe character (vertical
bar) indicate two options, of which only one can
be entered.
Text followed by an ampersand (&) and a pipe
character (vertical bar) indicates two options,
either or both of which can be entered.
A comma separating bracketed text indicates
repeated options that may be entered one at a
time or all at once.
A plus (+) sign preceding specific text represents
additional elements that are being added to an
existing setting. For example, to add a new
"member" to an existing address group, you
would type a "+" prior to the address
information of the new member.
before
A "no" entered
that the argument is not to be included in the
command. This is useful when entering a number
of arguments, one of which should not be
included yet must be entered in the command.
A backslash character at the end of a portion of
command line signifies that the command line
has been broken at that point, and continues on
the next line.
an argument indicates
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