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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:ALA-1>config>router# interface "primary#1"
When changes are made to the configuration file a "*" appears in the prompt string (
that the changes have not been saved. When an admin save command is executed the "*"
disappears. This behavior is controlled in the saved-ind-prompt command in the environment
context.
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