The Sun N1 Service Provisioning System software applies these rules when parsing batch files.
In fields that are known to be path names, slashes (whether forward or backward) are always translated to accommodate the convention used on the native file system.
Blank lines are allowed as visual separators of clusters of files.
Leading or trailing whitespace is not stripped from fields.
Both absolute and relative paths are allowed in a batchfile. By default, relative paths are interpreted as being relative to the batchfile location; this can be overridden with the -pwdrelative flag, in which case relative paths will be interpreted as being relative to the current working directory.