## Guardian Command Line Interface

The Guardian Command Line Interface is a command interpreter that is an executable `.cmd` batch file for Windows, and a `.sh` shell script for Linux. Both the Windows batch file and the Linux shell script are wrappers that accumulate and organize arguments to the Java command. You can invoke the Command Line Interface from a Windows Command Prompt window or a Linux terminal window.

For basic instructions on using the CLI, see Command Line Interface on page 73 on Tasks. For a detailed description of all CLI commands and syntax, see Command Line Interface on page 134 of Reference.