Using the Commands

Getting Started with the Command Line Interface (CLI)

You control the switch with commands described in this document and in the AT-8700XL Series Software Reference. While the keywords in commands are not case sensitive, the values entered for some parameters are (especially passwords). The switch supports command line editing and recall. Command line editing functions and keystrokes are shown in Table 2 on page 17.

Table 2: Command line editing functions and keystrokes .

Function	VT100 Terminal	Dumb terminal

Move cursor within command line	←, →	Not available

Delete character to left of cursor	[Delete] or [Backspace]	[Delete] or [Backspace]

Toggle between insert/overstrike	[Ctrl/O]	Not available

Clear command line	[Ctrl/U]	[Ctrl/U]

Recall previous command	↑ or [Ctrl/B]	[Ctrl/B]

Recall next command	↓ or [Ctrl/F]	[Ctrl/F]

Display command history	[Ctrl/C] or	[Ctrl/C]
	SHOW PORT HISTORY	or SHOW PORT HISTORY

Clear command history	RESET PORT HISTORY	RESET PORT HISTORY

Recall matching command	[Tab] or [Ctrl/I]	[Tab] or [Ctrl/I]

The switch assumes that the width of the terminal screen is 80 characters, and performs command line wrapping at the 80th column regardless of the setting of the terminal. To execute a command the cursor does not need to be at the end of the line. The default editing mode is insert mode. Characters are inserted at the cursor position and any characters to the right of the cursor are pushed to the right to make room. In overstrike mode, characters are inserted at the cursor position and replace any existing characters.

Commands are limited to 1000 characters, excluding the prompt. Path names of up to 256 characters, including file names, and file names up to 16 characters long, with extensions of 3 characters, are supported.

Aliases

The command line interface supports aliases. An alias is a short name for an often-used longer character sequence. When the user presses [Enter] to execute the command line, the command processor first checks the command line for aliases and substitutes the replacement text. The command line is then parsed and processed normally. Alias substitution is not recursive—the command line is scanned only once for aliases.

Aliases are created and destroyed using the commands:

ADD ALIAS=name STRING=substitution

DELETE ALIAS=name

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