Navigating The Cli; Using The Keyword No Command; Filtering Show Commands - Dell S4810 Reference Manual

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Navigating the CLI

Dell Networking OS displays a CLI prompt comprised of the host name and CLI mode.

Host name is the initial part of the prompt and is "Dell" by default. You can change the host name with

the hostname command.

CLI mode is the second part of the prompt and reflects the current CLI mode. For a list of the Dell

Networking OS command modes, refer to the command mode list in the

The CLI prompt changes as you move up and down the levels of the command structure. Starting with

CONFIGURATION mode, the command prompt adds modifiers to further identify the mode. For more

information about command modes, refer to the

To disable, delete or return to default values, use the no form of the commands.

For most commands, if you type the keyword no in front of the command, you disable that command or

delete it from the running configuration. In this guide, the no form of the command is described in the

Syntax portion of the command description.

To find specific information, display certain information only or begin the command output at the first

instance of a regular expression or phrase, you can filter the display output of a show command.

When you execute a show command, and then enter a pipe ( | ), one of the following parameters, and a

regular expression, the resulting output either excludes or includes those parameters.

NOTE: Dell Networking OS accepts a space before or after the pipe, no space before or after the

pipe, or any combination. For example: Dell#command | grep gigabit |except regular-

expression | find regular-expression

displays additional configuration information

displays only the text that does not match the pattern (or regular expression)

searches for the first occurrence of a pattern

displays text that matches a pattern.

The grep command option has an ignore-case suboption that makes the search

case-insensitive. For example, the commands:

Command Modes

returns a search result with instances containing a capitalized

"Ethernet," such as interface GigabitEthernet 0/0

Accessing the Command