When you use a menu command in Minitab, Minitab preserves session commands
that record your actions. You can use these session commands to quickly repeat
an analysis on a new set of data.
Each menu command has a corresponding
session command. Session commands consist of a main command and, usually, one
or more subcommands. Main commands and subcommands can be followed by a series
of arguments, which can be columns, constants, matrices, text strings, or
numbers. Minitab provides three ways to use session commands:
- Type session commands into the
Command
Line
pane.
- Copy session commands from the
History
pane to the
Command
Line
pane.
- Copy and save session commands
in an exec file.
When you show the
Command Line/History
pane, and then execute a command from a menu, the corresponding session
commands are displayed in the
History
pane. This technique is a convenient way to learn session commands.
To run commands using the Command Line pane, complete the following steps.
- Choose
.
You can also press
Ctrl
+
K.
- Click in the
Command
Line
pane.
- Enter and edit the session
commands.
- Click
Run.
To run commands again, complete the following steps.
- In the
History,
select the commands and subcommands.
- Click
Copy to Command
Line
- From the
Command
Line
pane, click
Run.
