About Shell Commands; Shell Prompt; Shell Command Shortcuts - Motorola Netopia 3397GP Administrator's Handbook

Administrator's Handbook

About SHELL Commands

You begin in SHELL mode when you start a CLI session. SHELL mode lets you perform the following
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tasks with your Motorola Netopia Gateway:
❑ Monitor its performance
❑ Display and reset Gateway statistics
❑ Issue administrative commands to restart Motorola Netopia® Gateway functions

SHELL Prompt

When you are in SHELL mode, the CLI prompt is the name of the Motorola Netopia® Gateway followed
by a right angle bracket (>). For example, if you open a CLI connection to the Motorola Netopia® Gate-
Netopia-3000/9437188>
way named "Netopia-3000/9437188," you would see as your CLI prompt.

SHELL Command Shortcuts

You can truncate most commands in the CLI to their shortest unique string. For example, you can use
q quit
the truncated command in place of the full command to exit the CLI. However, you would need
rese reset reset restart
to enter for the command, since the first characters of are common to the
command.
restart clear
The only commands you cannot truncate are and . To prevent accidental interruption of
restart clear
communications, you must enter the and commands in their entirety.
You can use the Up and Down arrow keys to scroll backward and forward through recent commands you
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have entered. Alternatively, you can use the command to repeat the last command you entered.
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