Editing DIGITAL Command Language (section)

==Scripting==
DCL scripts look much like any other scripting language, with some exceptions.  All DCL verbs in a script are preceded with a $ symbol; other lines are considered to be input to the previous command. For example, to use the TYPE command to print a paragraph onto the screen, one might use a script similar to:
<syntaxhighlight lang="console">
$ TYPE SYS$INPUT:
This is an example of using the TYPE verb
in the DCL language.
$ EXIT
</syntaxhighlight>