Chapter 2
| Using the Command Line Interface
Entering Commands
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Note:
You can open up to eight sessions to the device via Telnet or SSH.
Entering Commands
This section describes how to enter CLI commands.
Keywords and
Arguments
A CLI command is a series of keywords and arguments. Keywords identify a
command, and arguments specify configuration parameters. For example, in the
command “show interfaces status ethernet 1/5,” show interfaces and status are
keywords, ethernet is an argument that specifies the interface type, and 1/5
specifies the unit/port.
You can enter commands as follows:
◆ To enter a simple command, enter the command keyword.
◆ To enter multiple commands, enter each command in the required order. For
example, to enable Privileged Exec command mode, and display the startup
conficonfiguration, enter the following commands. The default password
“super” is used to change from Normal Exec to Privileged Exec mode:
Console>enable
Password:
Console#show startup-config
◆ To enter commands that require parameters, enter the required parameters
after the command keyword. For example, to set a password for the
administrator, enter:
Console(config)#username admin password 0 smith
Minimum
Abbreviation
The CLI will accept a minimum number of characters that uniquely identify a
command. For example, the command “configure” can be entered as con. If an
entry is ambiguous, the system will prompt for further input.
Command
Completion
If you terminate input with a Tab key, the CLI will print the remaining characters of a
partial keyword up to the point of ambiguity. In the “logging history” example,
typing log followed by a tab will result in printing the command up to “logging.”
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