Cisco Systems SPS2024, SPS208G, SPS224G4 Editing Features

Introduction

Editing Features

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Editing Features

A CLI command is a series of keywords and arguments. Keywords identify a

command, and arguments specify configuration parameters. For example, in the

command show interfaces status ethernet e11,

and

are

keywords,

is an argument that specifies the interface type, and

specifies the port.

To enter commands that require parameters, enter the required parameters after

the command keyword. For example, to set a password for the administrator,

enter:

Console(config)# username admin password alansmith

When working with the CLI, the command options are not displayed. The

command is not selected from a menu, but is manually entered. To see what

commands are available in each mode or within an Interface Configuration, the CLI

does provide a method of displaying the available commands, the command

syntax requirements and in some instances parameters required to complete the

command. The standard command to request help is ?.

There are two instances where help information can be displayed:

•Keyword lookup — The character ? is entered in place of a command. A list

of all valid commands and corresponding help messages are is displayed.

•Partial keyword lookup — If a command is incomplete and or the character

? is entered in place of a parameter, the matched keyword or parameters

for this command are displayed.

To assist in using the CLI, there is an assortment of editing features. The following

features are described:

•Terminal Command Buffer

•Command Completion

•Nomenclature

•Keyboard Shor tcuts