Improving the user experience of the CLI in Cisco IOS

Improved CLI the user Experience

serial number	command-line edit key sequence
1	Tab	full command or keyword
2	Ctrl + A	move cursor to start of command line
3	Ctrl + E	move the cursor to the end of the command line
4	Backspace	delete one character to the left of the cursor
5	Ctrl + U	delete one line
6	Ctrl + Shift + 6	run user terminates Ios process (for example ping or traceroute
7	Ctrl + C	discard the current command and launch configuration mode
8	Ctrl + Z	launch configuration mode and return EXEC Prompt

Switch#terminal History Size 50

set the session command buffer size to line

Switch#show history

Display the contents of the historical buffer

Serial number	Command line edit key sequence	Description
1	Ctrl + P ↑ "	command to bring up the historical buffer
2	Ctrl + N or "↓"	Returns the most recent command in the history buffer

Switch#terminal Length 100

Set the number of lines on the current terminal screen

Switch#show Running-config

Displays the current Configuration running in Cisco IOS , "SpaceBar" Displays the next set of rows, and the "Enter" key displays a row

Using Pipelines ( | ) Character and a filter parameter, you can filter Show Output

use the Inclue parameter to display a configuration command that contains a specific word

switch#showrunning-config | include hostname

use the section parameter to display a subset of the configuration

switch#showrunning-config | section FASTETHERNET0/1

Filter parameters that can be used to filter the output

Serial number	Parameters	Description
1	Begin	start with a line that matches the filter expression, and display all output starting at a point
2	Exclude	exclude all output lines that match the filter expression
3	include	includes all output lines that match the filter expression
4	Section	Displays the entire section starting from the filter expression

Improving the user experience of the CLI in Cisco IOS