Running CBS Tool on Linux/Unix Platforms 

Prerequisite

To be able to run the CBS tool on Linux/Unix platforms, you must copy the required directory cbstool_unix. For more information, see Running CBS Tool on Windows Platforms ® Jars from a Separate Directory are Used.

On the target machine, you have defined the environment variable CBSTOOLHOME before you launch the shell script cbstool.sh. The environment variable must point to the directory lib that contains the required jar files.

In addition, you must have set the environment variable JAVA_HOME, which must point to a Java SDK installation folder.

Procedure

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       1.      Open a command shell.

       2.      Navigate to the directory where the shell script cbstool.sh is located.

       3.      Enter cbstool.sh and choose Enter.

This will start the CBS tool in interactive mode.

¡        If you pass command line arguments to the shell script, they will be forwarded to the CBS tool.

¡        If the CBS tool is launched with command line parameters, it runs in batch mode.