Cli Behavior - Cisco 4215 - Intrusion Detection Sys Sensor Configuration Manual

CLI

CLI Behavior

Follow these tips when using the IPS CLI:
Prompts
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Help
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Tab Completion
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Recall
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You cannot change the prompt displayed for the CLI commands.
User interactive prompts occur when the system displays a question and waits for user input. The
default input is displayed inside brackets [ ]. To accept the default input, press Enter.
To display the help for a command, type ? after the command.
The following example demonstrates the ? function:
sensor# configure ?
terminal Configure from the terminal
sensor# configure
When the prompt returns from displaying help, the command previously entered is displayed
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without the ?.
You can type ? after an incomplete token to view the valid tokens that complete the command. If
there is a trailing space between the token and the ?, you receive an ambiguous command error:
sensor# show c ?
% Ambiguous command : "show c"
If you enter the token without the space, a selection of available tokens for the completion (with no
help description) appears:
sensor# show c?
clock configuration
sensor# show c
Only commands available in the current mode are displayed by help.
Only commands available in the current mode are displayed by tab complete and help.
If you are unsure of the complete syntax for a command, you can type a portion of the command and
press Tab to complete the command.
If multiple commands match for tab completion, nothing is displayed.
To recall the commands entered in a mode, use the Up Arrow or Down Arrow keys or press Ctrl-P
or Ctrl-N.
Note Help and tab complete requests are not reported in the recall list.
A blank prompt indicates the end of the recall list.
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