Juniper Networks J2320 manual Command Completion, CLI Editing Keystrokes

Chapter 4: Services Router User Interface Overview

Table 44: CLI Editing Keystrokes

Task Category	Action	Keyboard Sequence
Move the cursor.	Move the cursor back one character.	Ctrl-b
	Move the cursor back one word.	Esc b
	Move the cursor forward one character.	Ctrl-f
	Move the cursor forward one word.	Esc f
	Move the cursor to the end of the command line.	Ctrl-e
Delete characters.	Delete the character before the cursor.	Ctrl-h, Delete, or Backspace
	Delete the character at the cursor.	Ctrl-d
	Delete all characters from the cursor to the end of	Ctrl-k
	the command line.
	Delete all characters on the command line.	Ctrl-u or Ctrl-x
	Delete the word before the cursor.	Ctrl-w or Esc Backspace
	Delete the word after the cursor.	Esc d
Insert recently deleted text.	Insert the most recently deleted text at the cursor.	Ctrl-y
Redraw the screen.	Redraw the current line.	Ctrl-l
Display previous command lines.	Scroll backward through the list of recently executed	Ctrl-p
	commands.
	Scroll forward through the list of recently executed	Ctrl-n
	commands.
	Search the CLI history in reverse order for lines	Ctrl-r
	matching the search string.
	Search the CLI history by typing some text at the	Esc /
	prompt, followed by the keyboard sequence. The CLI
	attempts to expand the text into the most recent
	word in the history for which the text is a prefix.
Repeat keyboard sequences.	Specify the number of times to execute a keyboard	Esc number sequence
	sequence. Replace number with a number from 1
	through 9, and replace sequence with a keyboard
	sequence in this table.

Command Completion

You do not always have to remember or type the full command or option name for the CLI to recognize it. To display all possible command or option completions, type the partial command followed immediately by a question mark (?).

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