Chapter 5 Cajun Campus CLI (Command Line Interface)
28 Cajun P333T User’s Guide
Navigation, Cursor Movement and Shortcuts
The CLI contains a simple text editor with these functions:
Getting Help
On-line help may be obtained at any time by entering a question mark (
?
) or the
word
help
on the command line. To obtain help for a specific command type the
command followed by a space and a question mark.
For example,
Console>
show ?
.
Command Syntax
Commands are not case-sensitive. That is, uppercase and lowercase characters may
be interchanged freely.
Command Abbreviations
All commands and parameters in the CLI can be truncated to an abbreviation of
any length, as long as the abbreviation is not ambiguous. For example,
version
can be abbreviated
ver
.
For ambiguous commands, type the beginning letters on the command line and
then use the Tab key to toggle through all the possible commands beginning with
these letters.
Table 5.1 Navigation, Cursor Movement and Shortcuts
Keyboard Functions
Backspace Deletes the previous character
Up arrow/Down arrow Scrolls back and forward through the command
history buffer
Left arrow/Right arrow Moves the cursor left or right
Tab Completes the abbreviated command. Type the
minimum number of characters unique to the
command. An exception is the Reset System
command which you must type in full.
Enter Executes a single-line command