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M Command Faq

This document provides a list of 19 m commands and their purposes: m_cat concatenates multifiles, m_cleanup lists temporary files from jobs, and m_cp copies files or multifiles. Other commands include m_db to generate, test, and unload data from databases, m_dump to print record information from DML files, and m_eval to evaluate DML expressions. Commands like m_ls list files and directories, m_mkdir creates multidirectories, and m_rm removes files.

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M Command Faq

This document provides a list of 19 m commands and their purposes: m_cat concatenates multifiles, m_cleanup lists temporary files from jobs, and m_cp copies files or multifiles. Other commands include m_db to generate, test, and unload data from databases, m_dump to print record information from DML files, and m_eval to evaluate DML expressions. Commands like m_ls list files and directories, m_mkdir creates multidirectories, and m_rm removes files.

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M COMMAND FAQ

1. m_cat
Concatenates one or more multifiles into a serial or multifile
2. m_cleanup
Lists the temporary files and directories pointed to by the job log files.
3. m_cp
Copies one or more files or multifiles.
4. m_db gendml
m_db gendml dbc_file [ options ] -table tablename/-select
Generates appropriate metadata for the specified table or select statement or table expression:
5. m_db test dbc_file
Test the dbc file with the database for the specified .dbc file:
6. m_db unload dbc_file [options] -table tablename / -select 'sql-select-statement'
Unloads data from database table, select or expression to stdout:
7. m_dump dml_file file_name
m_dump dml_file file_name -start 5 -end 10
This DML utility prints information about data records, their record formats, and the evaluations
of expressions
8. m_env
Prints information about the current computing environment.
9. m_eval
This DML utility evaluates DML expressions and displays their derived types. Use it to quickly
test and evaluate simple, multiple, cast, and other expressions that you want to use in a graph.
10. m_expand
Prints information about a file, multifile, directory, or multidirectory to standard output.
11. m_kill
Kills a running job.
12. m_ls
Lists files, multifiles, directories, and multidirectories.
13. m_mkdir
Creates a multidirectory in a multifile system.
14. m_mkfs
Creates a multifile system.
15. m_queue
Commands in the m_queue group allow to create, delete, and maintain Ab Initio queues
16. m_rm
Removes files, multifiles, directories, or multidirectories.
17. m_rollback
Rolls back a job to the last completed checkpoint, or to the beginning if the job has not
completed any checkpoints. Use only for batch graphs, except when specifying the -d option.
18. m_shutdown
Waits for a continuous graph to commit the next checkpoint in order to end the job cleanly,
then stops the execution of the graph and deletes all checkpoint temporary files.
19. m_touch
Creates an empty file or multifile, or updates the access time of an existing file or multifile.

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