# or *

Pound (hash) or asterisk

At the beginning of a line, indicates that the line is a comment; the line is not executed. Comment lines are useful when inputting the selang commands from a file.

!

Exclamation mark

At the beginning of the line, indicates that the rest of the line is a shell command. selang sends the command to the operating system shell program for execution; CA ControlMinder does not execute the line.

\

Backslash

As the last character of a line, indicates the command continues on the following line.

;

Semicolon

Terminates a command and introduces a new command on the same line.

|

Pipe

Sends the output of the preceding command to the input of the succeeding command (the specified pipe).