Primary Commands; Table 8-17 Primary Commands - Lantronix SLC 8000 User Manual

Primary Commands

These are stand-alone commands which provide the primary functionality in a script. These
commands may rely on one or more of the Secondary Commands to provide values for some
parameters. The preprocessor will require that these commands appear only as the first element
of a command line. The start of a command line is delimited by any of the following:
The start of a new line of text in the script

A semicolon (';')

A left brace ('{')

Command
set
unset
scan
sleep
exec
send, send_user
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Table 8-17 Primary Commands

Description
The command assigns a value to a variable. Syntax:
set
set <variable> <value>
where <variable> is a word, and <value> can be defined in one of the following
ways:
A quoted string

A word

A variable reference

A value generated via one of the string secondary commands (compare,

match, first, etc.)
A value generated via the

A value generated via the

A value generated via the

This command removes the definition of a variable within a script. Syntax:
unset <variable>
where is a word.
<variable>
The command is analogous to the C language scanf(). Syntax:
scan
scan <variable> <format string> <value 1> <value 2> ... <value n>
where a variable reference, and
<variable>
string. Each of the
<value x>
The command suspends execution of the script (puts it to 'sleep') for the
sleep
specified number of seconds. Syntax:
sleep <value>
where can be a word, a quoted string or a variable reference.
<value>
The command executes a single CLI command. Currently only CLI 'show'
exec
commands may be executed via exec. Syntax:
exec <CLI command>
The command sends output to a sub-process, The
send
command sends output to the standard output. Both commands have the same
syntax:
send <string>
send_user <string>
where can be either a quoted string or a variable reference.
<string>
secondary command
expr
secondary command
format
command
expr timestamp
<format string>
elements will be a word.
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send_user
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