Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

Action Arguments

An argument is information required by a command or application for it to run properly. For example, consider the command line you could use to open a file in Text Editor:

dtpad filename

In this command, filename is a file argument of the dtpad command.

Actions, like applications and commands, can have arguments. There are two types of data that a COMMAND action can use: