DELL 9.8(0.0) User Manual

Key Combination

Action

Esc F

Moves the cursor forward one word.

Esc D

Deletes all the characters from the cursor to the end of the word.

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 

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 

Using the Keyword no Command

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.

Filtering show Commands

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

searches for the first occurrence of a pattern

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CLI Basics