Before we start

After the setup steps, you're all set and ready to start using the ARC Commander. 🎉

💡 We recommend trying the quickstarts for your first steps with the ARC Commander.

💡 After the quickstarts, we strongly recommend to read the in-depth ARC Commander Manual here.

• For most steps in this manual and in the guides, it is assumed, that you opened a shell or command prompt within a directory you want to initiate as an ARC
• In the shell, arc defines the path to the ARC Commander executable (e.g. on Windows "C:\Users\userA\programs\ArcCommander\arc.exe").
• Note that each input that contains non-literal characters must be encapsulated in "quotation marks" when entered within the shell. This also applies when using the editor for numerals that are no numbers (dates, phone numbers, etc.).

Using the ARC commander, most metadata information (e.g. the title or identifier of your investigation) can theoretically be entered solely by using the shell.

For instance, the following command would create an investigation with the identifier "MyInv001" and title "My Investigation 001":

If no arguments are supplied, a text editor may pop up asking you for suitable metadata values. For instance, the command

will open a text editor and (amongst other metadata keys) allow you to enter

After entering the required values, you can save and close the editor.

The ARC Commander comes with a leveled help menu, that suggests suitable inputs on every level of command or subcommand. You can simply add -h or --help at the end of an ARC Commander action to display the respective help menu.

Some examples:

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