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Monday, July 7, 2008

Cisco Help and Editing

Enter ? at any prompt to see a complete listing of available commands that can be used at the prompt level. You can also do partial a word to see available commands that start with letters before ? (e.g. s?, cl?, eth?).
When entering commands, you don't have to complete the entire word just enough to make it recognizable to the IOS from any other command. Example: instead of using the show command, you can use sh in place of show and it will work the same.
The ? can also be used to show the next step in the command. If you type a partial command and press the [Tab] key, the command is completed for you automatically. Router_2(config)# int [Tab] Router_2(config)# interface Router_2(config)# interface ? Async Async interface BVI Bridge-Group Virtual Interface Dialer Dialer interface Ethernet IEEE 802.3 Group-Async Async Group interface Lex Lex interface Loopback Loopback interface Null Null interface Port-channel Ethernet Channel of interfaces Serial Serial Tunnel Tunnel interface Virtual-Template Virtual Template interface Virtual-TokenRing Virtual TokenRing Router_2(config)# interface ethernet ? <0-0> Ethernet interface number Router_2(config)# interface ethernet 0 Router_2(config-if)#
Use the [spacebar] to scroll another page if available commands is longer than one page, use the [enter] key to scroll one line at a time. If help page is scrolled, press any key to return to the command line.

Command Line Editing Commands
Command
Meaning
Ctrl+A
Moves cursor to beginning of the line.
Ctrl+E
Moves cursor to end of line.
Ctrl+B
Moves back one character.
Esc+B
Moves back one word.
Ctrl+F
Moves forward one character.
Esc+F
Moves forward one word.
Ctrl+D
Deletes a single character at the cursor.
Backspace
Deletes a single character.
Ctrl+R
Redisplays the command prompt and command line.
Ctrl+U
Erases a line.
Ctrl+W
Erases a word.
Ctrl+Z
Ends Configuration mode and returns to EXEC.
tab
Finishes typing a command for you.

Router Command History
Command
Meaning
Ctrl+P or Up arrow
Shows last command entered.
Ctlr+N or Down arrow
Shows previous commands entered.
show history
Shows last 10 commands entered by default.
show terminal
Shows terminal configurations and history buffer size.
terminal history size [0-256]
Changes buffer size (max 256).
To see how long a router has been up, how it was restarted, the IOS version, number of Interfaces, memory, and config-register setting use the command show version from privileged EXEC mode

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