BROCADE IP PRIMER

Online HelpFor your convenience, you can abbreviate commands. The CLI will let youabbreviate up to the next distinct letter. You could do this:Switch>pi ?ASCII stringA.B.C.DSwitch>piOr even this:Switch>p ?ASCII stringA.B.C.DSwitch>pHost nameHost IP addressHost nameHost IP addressThe switch knows that when you issue the command p, you really mean ping. Itknows this because there are no other available commands that begin withthe letter “p.” What about the letter “s?”Switch>s ?Ambiguous input -> s ?Switch>Ambiguous input? What does that mean? It means the CLI can't distinguishwhich command you meant by just typing the letter “s.” Let's see what ouroptions are:Switch>s?showstop-tracerouteSwitch>Display system informationStop current TraceRouteNotice that there is no space between the s and the ? this time. That's important.You're not asking to see if a command needs more information. You'reasking to see all of the “s” commands (or commands that start with the letter“s”). You can see that we have two commands to choose from. So, what if wetried it again, giving it a little more information (one more letter, to be precise):Switch>st ?Switch>stIt didn't give us the “Ambiguous input” alert because it knew which commandwe meant. We added a “t,” and there's only one available command that startswith “st.” Now, what does mean? It means . Well, whatdoes that mean? It means there's no further information you need to feed thecommand. You can simply type st and press Enter. That's the end of the line.For convenience, Brocade also keeps a command history. The CLI keeps trackof all of the commands you've issued in a given session. To refer to a commandthat you previously typed, press the up-arrow key. You can press the uparrowkey multiple times to go further back in the command history. If you overshotthe command you were looking for, the down-arrow key will sift throughthe command history in the opposite direction (e.g., more recent commands).Brocade IP Primer 123