Administrator Guide

• The UP and DOWN arrow keys display previously entered commands (refer to Command History).

• The BACKSPACE and DELETE keys erase the previous letter.

• Key combinations are available to move quickly across the command line. The following table describes these short-cut key

combinations.

Short-Cut Key

Combination

Action

CNTL-A Moves the cursor to the beginning of the command line.

CNTL-B Moves the cursor back one character.

CNTL-D Deletes character at cursor.

CNTL-E Moves the cursor to the end of the line.

CNTL-F Moves the cursor forward one character.

CNTL-I Completes a keyword.

CNTL-K Deletes all characters from the cursor to the end of the command line.

CNTL-L Re-enters the previous command.

CNTL-N Return to more recent commands in the history buffer after recalling commands with CTRL-P or the UP arrow

key.

CNTL-P Recalls commands, beginning with the last command.

CNTL-R Re-enters the previous command.

CNTL-U Deletes the line.

CNTL-W Deletes the previous word.

CNTL-X Deletes the line.

CNTL-Z Ends continuous scrolling of command outputs.

Esc B Moves the cursor back one word.

Esc F Moves the cursor forward one word.

Esc D Deletes all characters from the cursor to the end of the word.

Command History

The Dell EMC Networking OS maintains a history of previously-entered commands for each mode. For example:

• When you are in EXEC mode, the UP and DOWN arrow keys display the previously-entered EXEC mode commands.

• When you are in CONFIGURATION mode, the UP or DOWN arrows keys recall the previously-entered CONFIGURATION mode

commands.

Filtering show Command Outputs

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 Dell EMC 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 1/1.

• 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.”

Configuration Fundamentals