Users 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
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.
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 0/0.
• show run | grep ethernet would 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.”
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