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Command completion, editing, and history, Viewing help, sho cl

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Command completion, editing, and history The CLI supports command completion, command editing, and command history. When entering commands interactively you can abbreviate their names and keywords. For example, you can enter sho cl to run the show cli-parameters command. If you enter too few letters to uniquely identify a keyword, pressing Tab will list commands or keywords that match the entered string and redisplays the string so you can complete it. When scripting commands, type commands in full to aid readability. The history contains the last 30 commands entered in the active CLI session. You can recall a command from the history, edit it, and run it. Table 4 Keyboard shortcuts for command completion, editing, and history To Press Complete a partially entered keyword Tab Get previous command from history Up Arrow or Ctrl+P Get next command from history Down Arrow or Ctrl+N Move cursor left Left Arrow or Ctrl+B Move cursor right Right Arrow or Ctrl+F Move back one word Esc+B Move forward one word Esc+F Move cursor to start of line Ctrl+A Move cursor to end of line Ctrl+E Transpose current and previous character Ctrl+T Delete current character Ctrl+D Delete previous character Backspace Delete word up to cursor Ctrl+W Delete rest of word Esc+D Delete text up to cursor Ctrl+U Delete rest of line Ctrl+K Convert rest of word to uppercase Esc+C Convert rest of word to lowercase Esc+L Enter command and redisplay prompt Ctrl+Z Refresh input line Ctrl+L Viewing help To view brief descriptions of all commands that are available to the user level you logged in as, enter: help To view help for a command and then return to the command prompt, enter: help command-name To view help for a command that you've started to enter, enter ?; for example: command-name ? To view the information shown in Command syntax above, enter: help syntax 20 Using the CLI

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Using the CLI
Command completion, editing, and history
The CLI supports command completion, command editing, and command history.
When entering commands interactively you can abbreviate their names and keywords. For example, you
can enter
sho cl
to run the
show cli-parameters
command. If you enter too few letters to uniquely
identify a keyword, pressing
Tab
will list commands or keywords that match the entered string and
redisplays the string so you can complete it. When scripting commands, type commands in full to aid
readability.
The history contains the last 30 commands entered in the active CLI session. You can recall a command
from the history, edit it, and run it.
Viewing help
To view brief descriptions of all commands that are available to the user level you logged in as, enter:
help
To view help for a command and then return to the command prompt, enter:
help
command-name
To view help for a command that you’ve started to enter, enter
?
; for example:
command-name
?
To view the information shown in
Command syntax
above, enter:
help syntax
Table 4
Keyboard shortcuts for command completion, editing, and history
To
Press
Complete a partially entered keyword
Tab
Get previous command from history
Up Arrow
or
Ctrl+P
Get next command from history
Down Arrow
or
Ctrl+N
Move cursor left
Left Arrow
or
Ctrl+B
Move cursor right
Right Arrow
or
Ctrl+F
Move back one word
Esc+B
Move forward one word
Esc+F
Move cursor to start of line
Ctrl+A
Move cursor to end of line
Ctrl+E
Transpose current and previous character
Ctrl+T
Delete current character
Ctrl+D
Delete previous character
Backspace
Delete word up to cursor
Ctrl+W
Delete rest of word
Esc+D
Delete text up to cursor
Ctrl+U
Delete rest of line
Ctrl+K
Convert rest of word to uppercase
Esc+C
Convert rest of word to lowercase
Esc+L
Enter command and redisplay prompt
Ctrl+Z
Refresh input line
Ctrl+L