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NOTE: The Dell Networking OS accepts a space before or after the pipe, no space before or after
the pipe, or any combination. For example: command | grep gigabit |except regular-
expression | find regular-expression.
except
Displays only the text that does not match the pattern (or regular expression).
find
Searches for the first occurrence of a pattern.
grep
Displays text that matches a pattern.
The grep command option has an ignore-case suboption that makes the search
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 the previous search result because it only
searches for instances containing a noncapitalized ethernet.
show run |
grep Ethernet
ignore-case
Returns instances containing both Ethernet and ethernet.
no-more
Does not paginate the display output.
save
Copies the output to a file for future use.
Displaying All Output
Use the no-more option after the pipe to display all output at once — not one screen at a time. This
operation is similar to
terminal length screen-length except that the no-more option affects the
output of just the specified command. For example: show running-config|no-more.
Filtering the Command Output Multiple Times
You can filter a single command output multiple times. To filter a command output multiple times, place
the save option as the last filter. For example: command | grep regular-expression | except
regular-expression | grep other-regular-expression | find regular-expression |
no-more | save
.
Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a Command
Option
The capability to activate software applications or components on a device using a command is
supported on this platform.
Starting with Release 9.4(0.0), you can enable or disable specific software features or applications that
need to run on a device by using a command attribute in the CLI interface. This enables effective,
streamlined management and administration of applications and utilities that run on a device. You can
employ this capability to perform an on-demand activation, or turn-off a software component or
protocol. A feature configuration file generated for each image contains feature names, and denotes if
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