Administrator Guide
Short-Cut Key
Combination
Action
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 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
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 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
TenGigabitEthernet 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.”
The grep command displays only the lines containing specified text. The following example shows this command used in combination with
the
show system brief command.
Example of the grep Keyword
Dell(conf)#do show system brief | grep 0
0 not present
NOTE
: 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.
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