Technical data

10 Meru System Director Configuration Guide © 2012 Meru Networks, Inc.
Manipulating Terminal Characteristics
Commands to Customize CLI Prompt
To customize the CLI prompt for your system, use one of the following commands in
Global Configuration mode:
Manipulating Terminal Characteristics
Displaying Terminal Settings
To display the current terminal settings, including the screen length and width, type:
controller> show terminal
Terminal Length: 0
Terminal Width: 80
History Buffer Size: 10
Setting Terminal Screen Length and Width
By default, the terminal length is set to 0 rows, and the width is set to 80 columns.
To override this default setting, and set the number of lines or character columns on
the current terminal screen for the current session, use the following commands in
user EXEC mode:
controller> terminal length screen-length
controller> terminal width characters
To reset the terminal length and width to the default values, use the default
command:
controller> default terminal length
controller> default terminal width
Table 2: Commands to Customize the CLI Prompt
Command Purpose
prompt string
Customizes the CLI prompt.
no prompt
Disables the display of the CLI prompt.
default prompt
Sets the prompt to the default, which is the hostname.