These arguments may be placed on the
command line
after the file name,
or on the
job control line
(optional first line of the job), on the end of the line
after the qualifier
!ARGS
Use of arguments
Arguments are substituted into the command file wherever
it has a
$i
string where
ian integer indicating the position of the argument in the argument list.More!
Example
The command line
ASReml -r2w500 myjob alpha beta gamma
could be run as
ASReml myjob
if the first line of
myjob.as
reads
!RENAME 2 !WORKSPACE 500 !ARGS alpha beta gamma
and would run the job twice. The first run would produce output files
myjobalpha_beta.*
and would substitute
alpha
for
$1,
and
beta
for
$2.
The second run would produce output files
myjobalpha_gamma.*
and would substitute
alpha
for
$1,
and
gamma
for
$2.