Configuration File of Command Line Arguments

This argument allows you to read a set of other command line arguments from a specified file. The file must be a text file containing command line arguments as they would normally appear on a command line.

  • Property name: not available in station.properties file

  • Command line argument: configfile:<filename>

    or @filename

You can use either of the two forms of this argument; they are interchangeable.

Command line examples:

station configfile:myargs.txt
station @see.txt

For example, if you have a file see.txt in your home directory that contains the following entries:

profile:ExecutionEngine1 logonprompt:no
# provide user name and password to connect
user:seeadmin pw:seeadmin

You can now start a station connected to ExecutionEngine1 with the following command:

station @see.txt

You can also mix and match the contents of the file with the actual command line option at the command prompt. For example:

station @see.txt logonprompt:yes

For the example file see.txt shown above, this argument would show the Logon dialog box (logonprompt option) even though the file provided everything necessary and also instructed the Logon dialog box to not appear.

The arguments file you create can contain one or more lines. Each line can contain one or more command line arguments. Arguments with spaces must be enclosed in single or double quotation marks. Comments lines are allowed—any line starting with # is ignored. Empty lines are also ignored.