Controlling the CLI display

Multi-screen display

Controlling multi-screen display

If the output information spans multiple screens, each screen pauses after it is displayed. Perform one of the following operations to proceed.

Action

Function

Press Space

Displays the next screen.

 

 

Press Enter

Displays the next line.

 

 

Press Ctrl+C

Stops the display and the command execution.

 

 

Press <PageUp>

Displays the previous page.

 

 

Press <PageDown>

Displays the next page.

 

 

By default, each screen displays up to 24 lines. To change the maximum number of lines displayed on the next screen, use the screen-length command. For more information about the screen-length command, see the chapter “Logging in to the switch commands.”

Disabling multi-screen display

You can use the following command to disable the multi-screen display function. All of the output information will be displayed at one time and the screen will refresh continuously until the last screen is displayed.

To do…

Use the command…

Remarks

 

 

Required

 

 

By default, a login user uses the

 

 

settings of the screen-length

 

 

command. The default settings of the

 

 

screen-length command are:

Disable the multi-screen display

 

multiple-screen display is enabled

screen-length disable

and up to 24 lines are displayed on

function

 

the next screen.

 

 

 

 

This command is executed in user

 

 

view, and takes effect for the current

 

 

user only. When the user re-logs into

 

 

the switch, the default configuration

 

 

is restored.

 

 

 

Filtering output information

Introduction

You can use regular expressions in display commands to filter output information.

The following methods are available for filtering output information:

•Input the begin, exclude, or include keyword plus a regular expression in the display command to filter the output information.

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