Enterasys Networks 8000/8600 manual Basic Line Editing Commands

Starting the Command Line Interface

Basic Line Editing Commands

The CLI supports EMACs-like line editing commands. The following table lists some commonly used commands. For a complete set of commands, see the Enterasys X-Pedition User Reference Manual.

Table 20. Some commonly used CLI commands

Key sequence	Command
Ctrl+A	Move cursor to beginning of line
Ctrl+B	Move cursor back one character
Ctrl+D	Delete character
Ctrl+E	Move cursor to end of line
Ctrl+F	Move cursor forward one character
Ctrl+N	Scroll to next command in command history (use the cli show history
	command to display the history)
Ctrl+P	Scroll to previous command in command history
Ctrl+U	Erase command line up to cursor
Ctrl+X	Move cursor to beginning of the next word in the command line
Ctrl+Z	Exit current access mode to previous access mode

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