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Filtering show Command Outputs

Filter the output of a show command to display specific information by adding | [except | find |

grep | no-more | save] specified_text after the command.

The variable specified_text is the text for which you are filtering and it IS case sensitive unless you

use the ignore-case sub-option.

Starting with the Dell Networking OS version 7.8.1.0, the grep command accepts an ignore-case sub-

option that forces the search to case-insensitive. For example, the commands:

• show run | grep Ethernet returns a search result with instances containing a capitalized

“Ethernet,” such as

interface GigabitEthernet 0/0.

• show run | grep ethernet does not return that search result because it only searches for

instances containing a non-capitalized “ethernet.”

• show run | grep Ethernet ignore-case returns instances containing both “Ethernet” and

“ethernet.”

The grep command displays only the lines containing specified text. The following shows this command

used in combination with the

do show stack-unit all stack-ports pfc details | grep 0

command.

Dell(conf)#do show stack-unit all stack-ports all pfc details | grep 0

stack unit 0 stack-port all

0 Pause Tx pkts, 0 Pause Rx pkts

NOTE: The Dell Networking OS accepts a space or no space before and after the pipe. To filter a

phrase with spaces, underscores, or ranges, enclose the phrase with double quotation marks.

The except keyword displays text that does not match the specified text. The following example shows

this command used in combination with the do show stack-unit all stack-ports all pfc

details | except 0

command.

Example of the except Keyword

Example of the find Keyword

Dell(conf)#do show stack-unit all stack-ports all pfc details | except 0

Admin mode is On

Admin is enabled

Local is enabled

Link Delay 45556 pause quantum

stack unit 1 stack-port all

Admin mode is On

Admin is enabled

The find keyword displays the output of the show command beginning from the first occurrence of

specified text.

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