File and system

The file and system commands perform different operations at the file, project, and operating system level.

Command descriptions

Command Description

DIRECTORY

Generates a list of files and folders in the specified directory.

DISPLAY

Displays information about the specified Analytics item type. Can also display the result of an expression, or the output of a function.

DUMP

Displays the contents of a file, or the current record, in hexadecimal, ASCII, and EBCDIC character encodings.

HELP

Launches the Analytics Help Docs in a browser.

QUIT

Ends the current session and closes Analytics.

RANDOM

Generates a set of random numbers.

SAVE LOG

Saves the entire command log, or the log entries for the current Analytics session, to an external file.