Chapter 5. Record Session Commands in a File

Explanation of the Commands Used in this Example

list

shows all children at the CLI workspace context. (The workspace in this example initially contains no VDBs.)

show-global

shows the VDB Builder global constants. One of the constants specifies the recording output file (RECORDING_FILE).

set-global RECORDING_FILE ./mySession.txt

this changes the name of the file where our session commands will be saved.

set-record on

starts recording all subsequent commands.

create-vdb SampleVDB

creates the VDB called SampleVDB.

cd SampleVDB

navigates into the SampleVDB directory.

add-model Model1

adds a model called Model1.

cd Model1

navigates into Model1.

add-table Table1

adds a table called Table1

cd Table1

navigates into Table1.

add-column Col1

adds a column called Col1.

add-column Col2

adds a column called Col2.

workspace

navigates to the workspace context.

set-record off

tells the system to stop recording commands.