# About Common Options

For a list of the Microsoft Window commands (similar to the MS-DOS commands) at the command-line prompt, type help and press Enter. A help list of the standard commands will appear.

When you invoke the command-line tool with no options, it displays a help message describing all of the command-line Admin Tool’s usage functions. For example, type c:\<your directory location> ReqAdmin and press Enter.

As shown in Building a Repository, the command-line Admin Tool requires that you pass the first parameter as the name of the command to execute. The parameters that follow the first parameter will vary by the command entered.

For example, if you need details about the processing, enter the -v (verbose) option, and progress information will be written to STDOUT. Also, if errors:

- Do not occur, all commands implemented by the tool will not produce output to STDOUT.
- Do occur, they will be written to STDERR, and the tool exits with a non-zero exit code.

Parent topic: Command Line Options