Keyboard Shortcuts; Copying And Pasting Text - Cisco 300 Series Cli Manual

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Keyboard Shortcuts

The CLI has a range of keyboard shortcuts to assist in editing the CLI commands.

The following table describes the CLI shortcuts.

Keyboard Key

Ctrl+Z / End

Up to 1000 lines of text (or commands) can be copied and pasted into the device.

It is the user's responsibility to ensure that the text copied into the device consists

of legal commands only.

When copying and pasting commands from a configuration file, ensure that the

following conditions exist:

A device configuration mode has been accessed.

The commands contain no encrypted data, like encrypted passwords or

keys. Encrypted data cannot be copied and pasted into the device except

for encrypted passwords where the keyword encrypted is used before the

encrypted data (for instance in the enable password command).

Recalls commands from the history buffer,

beginning with the most recent command. Repeat

the key sequence to recall successively older

Returns the most recent commands from the

history buffer after recalling commands with the

up arrow key. Repeating the key sequence will

recall successively more recent commands.

Moves the cursor to the beginning of the

command line.

Moves the cursor to the end of the command line.

Returns back to the Privileged EXEC mode from

any configuration mode.

Deletes one character left to the cursor position.

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