Summarized descriptions of Network Shell commands
The following table provides a brief description of all Network Shell commands and utilities. Commands that have been internationalized to support multibyte characters are indicated in the column on the right.
Note
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).
Network Shell Command | Description | I18N Support |
---|---|---|
| Controls the functions of an RSCD agent. | NA |
| Provides information about an RSCD agent. | NA |
| Scans files for specified patterns. | no |
| Creates an X.509 certificate. | NA |
| Manages authentication profiles, session credentials, and trusted certificates. | yes |
| Creates and evaluates an expression based on input in the form of arguments. | yes |
| Remotely manages keystroke logfiles on a computer running an RSCD agent. | yes |
| Remotely manages live RSCD agent logfiles. | yes |
| Extends the functionality of | yes |
| Utility for compressing files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional compressors. | yes |
| Concatenates and prints files. | yes |
| Sets or changes the agent password on one or more Windows servers that have the RSCD agent running. | NA |
| Changes group (and user) ownership of files. | yes |
| Changes the mode (protection attributes) of a file. | yes |
| Changes user (and group) ownerships of files. | yes |
| Changes the current role. | NA |
| Display file checksums and block counts. | yes |
| Compares the content of two files checking to see if they are identical. | yes |
| Removes columns from a file. | yes |
| Selects or rejects lines common to two files. | yes |
| Compresses data. | yes |
| Copies files. | yes |
| Converts data in a comma-separated value format to XML format. | yes |
| Selects portions of each line of a file. | yes |
| Displays an overview of the local DAAL registry. | NA |
| Converts and copies a file. | yes |
| Compares the differences between files and directories. | yes |
| Executes a remote | yes |
df2 | Reports file system disk usage. | yes |
| Synchronizes two directories. | yes |
| Displays disk usage information for files. | yes |
| Echoes arguments. | yes |
| Expands tabs to spaces. | yes |
| Extracts specified fields from a data row. | NA |
| Determines file type. | yes |
| Walks a file hierarchy. | yes |
| Filters the contents of files to limit line length. | yes |
| Prints fully qualified domain name of the current or specified host. | NA |
| Extracts files from a ZIP archive in a pipe. | yes |
| Searches files and selects lines matching specified patterns. | yes |
| Displays the first few lines of a file. | yes |
| Performs an ASCII, decimal, hexadecimal, or octal dump. | yes |
| Highlights the results of a | yes |
| Prints the name of the current host. | yes |
| Provides a relational database operator. | yes |
| Outputs files side by side. | yes |
| Displays files on a CRT. | yes |
| Specifies key bindings that are used by the | NA |
| Creates a link to a file. | yes |
| Creates a link to a file. | yes |
| Lists the contents of a directory. | yes |
| Get man pages from a remote host. | NA |
| Calculate the MD5 checksum of files. | yes |
| Create directories. | yes |
| Creates a named pipe. | yes |
| Creates a special file. | yes |
| Moves or renames files. | yes |
| Copies/synchronizes multiple sources to multiple destinations. | yes |
| Displays CPU information. | NA |
| View usage statistics from one or more hosts. | NA |
| Compares contents of multiple directories. | yes |
| Copies/synchronizes multiple sources to multiple destinations. | yes |
| Provides an interface for running remote commands. | yes |
| Log on to a remote host. | NA |
| View memory and swap statistics from one or more hosts. | NA |
| Displays network adaptor configuration data for one or more servers. | NA |
| Invokes a command immune to hangups. | yes |
| Displays a system overview in a standardized format independent of the server's operating system. | NA |
| Displays process summary from one or more hosts. | NA |
| Displays process information from one or more hosts. | NA |
| Outlines the differences between Network Shell and other shells. | yes |
| Describes the use of the Network Shell Perl module. | NA |
| Tests different network write buffer sizes. | NA |
| Shows the path where an nsh executable resides. | yes |
| Displays a system overview in a standardized format independent of the server's operating system. | NA |
| Provides a collection of commands used to view information and statistics for one or more servers. | NA |
| Removes certificates from servers. | NA |
| Decompresses or compresses files. | yes |
| Sorts a list of strings (or lines) in a specified order. | yes |
| Merges corresponding or subsequent lines of files. | yes |
| Reads and writes file archives and copies directory hierarchies. | yes |
| Provides a Network Shell wrapper to the | NA |
| Print files. | yes |
| Prunes log files to a specified size. | yes |
| Pushes a certificate generated by bl_gen_ssl to one or more servers. | NA |
| Redirects input to a file. | yes |
| Alters the priority of running processes. | NA |
| Removes a file. | yes |
| Removes an empty directory. | yes |
| Describes the Remote System Call Daemon (the RSCD agent). | yes |
| Runs an NSH command with alternate privileges. | yes |
| Runs a Network Shell command on one or more hosts. | yes |
| Runs a Network Shell script on one or more hosts. | yes |
| Copies and executes scripts on remote servers. | yes |
| Compares the differences between files and directories side-by-side. | yes |
| Defines encryption security when modifying the secure file. | NA |
| Provides a stream editor. | yes |
| Sorts or merges text files. | yes |
| Splits a file into pieces. | yes |
| Finds printable strings in a file. | yes |
| Substitutes a user identity. | NA |
| Outputs the last part of files. | yes |
| Reads and writes file archives and copies directory hierarchies. | yes |
| Copies standard input to standard output, making copies of the input. | yes |
| Tests the value of an expression. | yes |
| Changes the last update and modification times of a file. | yes |
| Translates or deletes characters. | yes |
| Prints the operating system name. | NA |
| Expands compressed data. | yes |
| Uncopies files that were backed up during a | yes |
| Replaces spaces with tabs (see also | yes |
| Reports or filters out repeated lines in a file. | yes |
| Unlinks a file and/or directory. | yes |
| Lists, tests, and extracts compressed files in a ZIP archive. | yes |
| Provides a self-extracting stub for prepending to ZIP archives. This command is not supported in Windows and DOS. | yes |
| Encodes a binary file. | yes |
| Decodes a binary file. | yes |
| Tells what version of BMC Server Automation software is installed on a server. | NA |
| Provides a text editor. | no |
| Starts a shell and captures input and output. | NA |
| Views the log files created by | NA |
| Shows the directory structure of a file system. | yes |
| Counts the number of lines, words, and/or characters in a file. | yes |
| Expands compressed data. ( | yes |
| Packages and compresses (archives) files. | yes |
| Packages and compresses (archives) files. | yes |
| Searches files in an archive for lines matching a pattern. | yes |
| Lists detailed information about an archive. | yes |
| Packages and compresses (archives) files. | yes |
| Packages and compresses (archives) files. | yes |
| Provides man pages for Network Shell's preferred command interpreter, the Z shell. | Zsh 4.0.4: no Zsh 4.3.4: yes |
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