Cisco Systems Cisco IOS XR manual Browsing Display Output when the --More-- Prompt Appears

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Chapter 6 CLI Tips, Techniques, and Shortcuts

Displaying System Information with show Commands

Browsing Display Output when the --More-- Prompt Appears

When command output requires more than one screen, output is presented one screen at a time, and a

such as for the ?, show, or more command, the prompt is displayed at the bottom of the screen.

To display additional command output, do one of the following:

•Press Return to display the next line.

•Press the space bar to display the next screen of output.

The following example shows one screen of data and the --More--prompt:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show ?

aaa	Show AAA configuration and operational data
adjacency	Adjacency information
aliases	Display alias commands
alphadisplay	Shows the message being displayed on the alpha display
aps	SONET APS information
arm	IP ARM information
arp	ARP table
as-path-access-list	List AS path access lists
asic-errors	ASIC error information
atc	Attractor Cache related
auto-rp	Auto-RP Commands
bgp	BGP show commands
buffer-manager	Show all buffer manager memory related information
bundle	Show hardware related information for Bundles.
calendar	Display the system calendar
cdp	CDP information
cef	Cisco Express Forwarding
cetftp	HFR control plane ethernet TFTP server
checkpoint	Show checkpoint services
cinetd	cinetd daemon
clns	Display CLNS related information
clock	Display the system clock
commit	Show commit information

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Tip If you do not see the --More--prompt, try entering a value for the screen length with the terminal length command in EXEC mode. Command output is not paused if the length value is set to zero. The following example shows how to set the terminal length:

RP/0/RP1/CPU0:router# terminal length 20

For information on searching or filtering CLI output, see the “Filtering show Command Output” section on page 6-9.

Halting the Display of Screen Output

To interrupt screen output and terminate a display, press Ctrl-C, as shown in the following example:

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# show running-config

<Ctrl-C>

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