DELL N3000 User Manual

Using the Command-Line Interface

If there are no additional command keywords or parameters, or if additional 

parameters are optional, the following message appears in the output:

<cr>

Press enter to execute the command.

You can also enter a question mark (?) after typing one or more characters of a 

word to list the available command or parameters that begin with the letters, 

as shown in the following example:

The CLI can complete partially entered commands when you press the 

<Tab> or <Space> key. 

console#show run<Tab>

console#show running-config

If the characters you entered are not enough for the switch to identify a single 

matching command, continue entering characters until the switch can 

uniquely identify the command. Use the question mark (?) to display the 

available commands matching the characters already entered.

To execute a command, you need to enter enough characters so that the 

switch can uniquely identify a command. For example, to enter Global 

Configuration mode from Privileged EXEC mode, you can enter conf instead 

of configure.

console#conf

console(config)#

For many commands, the prefix keyword no is entered to cancel the effect of 

a command or reset the configuration to the default value. Many 

configuration commands have this capability.