In this section you will learn how to use the command lines, some examples are provided using bionetdb.sh command line.
Basic Command Line Conventions
BioNetDB follows the most standard conventions when implementing command lines, the most relevant ones are:
single-character parameters start with only one hyphen symbol and can be either lower-case or upper-case, e.g. -h to print the help or -S to provide session id; while multi-character parameters start with two hyphens and are always lower-case, e.g. --help to print the help or --name to provide a name.
in the Usage the optional parameters are written always between [ square brackets ], in the following example help, version and option are not mandatory: