17 Utilities
Commands that don’t fit any other category are placed here.
Most of these commands are not affected by commands like IF and LOOP: they take effect only once, unconditionally, at the time that they are encountered in the input.
| • ADD DOCUMENT | Add documentary text to the active dataset. | |
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| • CACHE | Ignored for compatibility. | |
| • CD | Change the current directory. | |
| • COMMENT | Document your syntax file. | |
| • DOCUMENT | Document the active dataset. | |
| • DISPLAY DOCUMENTS | Display active dataset documents. | |
| • DISPLAY FILE LABEL | Display the active dataset label. | |
| • DROP DOCUMENTS | Remove documents from the active dataset. | |
| • ECHO | Write a string to the output stream. | |
| • ERASE | Erase a file. | |
| • EXECUTE | Execute pending transformations. | |
| • FILE LABEL | Set the active dataset’s label. | |
| • FINISH | Terminate the PSPP session. | |
| • HOST | Temporarily return to the operating system. | |
| • INCLUDE | Include a file within the current one. | |
| • INSERT | Insert a file within the current one. | |
| • OUTPUT | Modify the appearance of the output. | |
| • PERMISSIONS | Change permissions on a file. | |
| • PRESERVE and RESTORE | Saving settings and restoring them later. | |
| • SET | Adjust PSPP runtime parameters. | |
| • SHOW | Display runtime parameters. | |
| • SUBTITLE | Provide a document subtitle. | |
| • TITLE | Provide a document title. |