Reference Guide

Key Combination Action

CNTL-N Returns to the 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 the command outputs.

Esc B Moves the cursor back one word.

Esc F Moves the cursor forward one word.

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

Using the Keyword no Command

To disable, delete or return to default values, use the no form of the commands.

For most commands, if you type the keyword no in front of the command, you disable that command or

delete it from the running configuration. In this guide, the no form of the command is described in the

Syntax portion of the command description.

Filtering show Commands

To find specific information, display certain information only or begin the command output at the first

instance of a regular expression or phrase, you can filter the display output of a show command.

When you execute a show command, and then enter a pipe ( | ), one of the following parameters, and a

regular expression, the resulting output either excludes or includes those parameters.

NOTE: Dell Networking OS accepts a space before or after the pipe, no space before or after the

pipe, or any combination. For example: Dell#command | grep gigabit |except regular-

expression | find regular-expression

display

displays additional configuration information

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:

CLI Basics