Displaying Terminal Settings; Using Cli Variables; User-Defined Cli Session Variables - Cisco MDS 9000 series Command Reference Manual

Using CLI Variables

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Displaying Terminal Settings

The show terminal command displays the terminal settings for the current session:
switch# show terminal
TTY: Type: "vt100"
Length: 24 lines, Width: 80 columns
Session Timeout: 525600 minutes
Using CLI Variables
The SAN-OS CLI parser supports definition and use of variables in CLI commands. CLI variables can
be used as follows:
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CLI variables have the following characteristics:
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User-Defined CLI Session Variables

You can define CLI variables the persist only for the duration of your CLI session using the cli var name
command in EXEC mode. These CLI variables are useful for scripts that you execute periodically.
The following example shows how to create a user-defined CLI session variable.
switch# cli var name testinterface fc 1/1
You can reference a variable using the syntax $(variable).
The following example shows how to reference a user-defined CLI session variable.
switch# show interface $(testinterface)
fc1/1 is up
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Entered directly on the command line.
Passed to the child script initiated using the run-script command. The variables defined in the
parent shell are available for use in the child run-script command process.
Passed as command line arguments to the run-script command.
You cannot reference a variables through another variable using nested references.
You can define persistent variables that are available across switch reloads.
You can reference only one predefined system variable, the TIMESTAMP variable.
Hardware is Fibre Channel, SFP is short wave laser w/o OFC (SN)
Port WWN is 20:01:00:0d:ec:0e:1d:00
Admin port mode is auto, trunk mode is on
snmp traps are enabled
Port mode is F, FCID is 0x01000b
Port vsan is 1
Speed is 2 Gbps
Transmit B2B Credit is 7
Receive B2B Credit is 16
Receive data field Size is 2112
Beacon is turned off
5 minutes input rate 256 bits/sec, 32 bytes/sec, 1 frames/sec
5 minutes output rate 256 bits/sec, 32 bytes/sec, 1 frames/sec
232692 frames input, 7447280 bytes
0 discards, 0 errors
0 CRC, 0 unknown class
Chapter 1 CLI Overview
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