The Cli Command Prompt - Alcatel-Lucent 7210 SAS M Configuration Manual

The CLI Command Prompt

The CLI Command Prompt
By default, the CLI command prompt indicates the device being accessed and the current CLI
context. For example, the prompt: A:ALA-1>config>router>if# indicates the active context, the
user is on the device with hostname ALA-1 in the configure>router>interface context. In the
prompt, the separator used between contexts is the "
At the end of the prompt, there is either a pound sign ("
of the prompt indicates the context is an existing context. A "
the context has been newly created. New contexts are newly created for logical entities when the
user first navigates into the context.
Since there can be a large number of sublevels in the CLI, the environment command reduced-
prompt no of nodes in prompt allows the user to control the number of levels displayed in the
prompt.
All special characters (#, $, etc.) must be enclosed within double quotes, otherwise
comment character and all characters on the command line following the # are ignored.
For example:
*A:ALU-7210>config>router# interface "primary#1"
When changes are made to the configuration file a "*" appears in the prompt string (
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executed the "*" disappears. This behavior is controlled in the saved-ind-prompt command in the
environment context.
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indicating that the changes have not been saved. When an admin save command is
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" symbol.
>
" or a dollar sign ("
# )
" at the end of the prompt indicates
$
" . A " " at the end
$ ) #
it is seen as a
*A:ALU-