evhelp

Display on-line help for a command

SYNOPSIS

evhelp [-l | <command>]

DESCRIPTION

This command will display on-line help for any CLI command, and for a small set of additional subsections.

-l only displays a list of the available commands.

<command> displays the on-line help for <command>. This is the same information that is printed when using the -H option with all CLI commands. <command> may also be the name of one of the subsections described by evhelp -H.

EXAMPLE

$ evhelp evgetfields
evgetfields
This command provides the values for specific fields enumerated in a list,
for an existing problem in the ExtraView database.
Syntax:
evgetfields ID field1 field2 ... ... fieldn
Notes:
* The ID must exist in the ExtraView database.

* Each field in the list must exist.

* The command evfields generates a list of valid fields that can be used with
this command.

The following example retrieves the status, priority and description for a
problem.

$ evgetfields 12345 status priority description
Sumitted
High
This problem can be seen when you set the control to setting A.
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If the query returns a null value for a field, there will be an empty line in
the output.
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