APC AP9290 User Manual

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Command prompt form.

prompt [short|long]

This command sets the command prompt to either the short or long form. 
The short form shows the configured host name as the prompt in the format 

hostname>

. The long form shows the user currently logged in for the 

session and the configured hostname in the format 

user@hostname>

.

The prompt notifies the user if there are unsaved configuration changes 
with the string 

[s!]

 prepended to the prompt in short form, or the string 

[save cfg!]

 prepended to the prompt in long form.

The prompt also notifies the user if any services need to be restarted for 
changes to take effect. This is shown in the short form by the prepended 
string 

[r!]

 and in long form by the prepended string 

[run cfg!]

.

Set the prompt to short form.

Set the prompt to long form.

• prompt short

• prompt long

For more information on configured host names, see the