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Chapter 5 CLI Tips, Techniques, and Shortcuts
Wildcards, Templates, and Aliases
Wildcards, Templates, and Aliases
This section contains the following topics:
• Using Wildcards to Identify Interfaces in show Commands, page 5-109
• Creating Configuration Templates, page 5-110
• Aliases, page 5-113
• Keystrokes Used as Command Aliases, page 5-114
Using Wildcards to Identify Interfaces in show Commands
Wildcards (*) identify a group of interfaces in show commands. Table 5-4 provides examples of
wildcard usage to identify a group of interfaces.
Note The wildcard (*) must be the last character in the interface name.
Example
The following example shows how the configuration for all POS interfaces in rack 0, slot 1 is displayed:
RP/0/0/CPU0:router:router# show running-config interface pos0/1/*
interface POS0/1/0/0
ipv4 address 10.2.3.4 255.255.255.0
pos
crc 32
!
keepalive disable
interface POS0/1/0/1
ipv4 address 10.2.3.5 255.255.255.0
pos
crc 32
!
keepalive disable
interface POS0/1/0/2
ipv4 address 10.2.3.6 255.255.255.0
pos
crc 32
!
keepalive disable
interface POS0/1/0/3
ipv4 address 10.2.3.7 255.255.255.0
pos
Table 5-4 Examples of Wildcard Usage
Wildcard Syntax Description
* Specifies all interfaces
pos* Specifies all POS interfaces in the system
pos0/1/* Specifies all POS interfaces in rack 0, slot 1
pos0/3/4* Specifies all subinterfaces for POS0/3/4