Annotations; Keyboard Shortcuts - Dell Force10 S2410-01-10GE-24P Command Reference Manual

Annotations

Keyboard Shortcuts

| Using the Command Line Interface
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Double quotation marks such as "System Name with Spaces" set off user defined strings. If the
operator wishes to use spaces as part of a name parameter then it must be enclosed in double quotation
marks.
Empty strings are not valid user-defined strings.
Command completion finishes spelling the command when enough letters of a command are entered to
uniquely identify the command word. The command may be executed by pressing ENTER (command
abbreviation) or the command word may be completed by pressing the Tab key or Spacebar (command
completion).
The value 'Err' designates that the requested value was not internally accessible. This should never
happen and indicates that there is a case in the software that is not handled correctly.
The value of '-----' designates that the value is unknown.
The CLI allows the user to type single-line annotations at the command prompt for use when writing
test or configuration scripts and for better readability. The exclamation point ('!') character flags the
beginning of a comment. The comment flag character can begin a word anywhere on the command line
and all input following this character is ignored. Any command line that begins with the character '!' is
recognized as a comment line and ignored by the parser.
Some examples are shown here:
! Script file for displaying the ip interface
! Display information about interfaces
show ip interface 0/1 !Displays the information about the first interface
! Display information about the next interface
show ip interface 0/2
! End of the script file
! Script file for displaying the ip interface
! Display information about interfaces
show ip interface 1/0/1 !Displays the information about the first interface
! Display information about the next interface
show ip interface 1/0/2
! End of the script file
The following key combinations (speedkeys, special characters) speed up use of the CLI:
Backspace—
delete previous character
Ctrl-A—go to beginning of line
Ctrl-B—go backward one character
Ctrl-D—delete current character