Dumbest Question Yet! - show int!

Alright, so I was playing with a 2900 series switch for the first time today. (I'd previously only had a 1900) So I ran a "show int" and it ran all 16 fast ethernet ports page by page. So I found myself hitting the space bar over and over and took like 45 seconds to get back to the command prompt. I was only interested int he first 3 ports. Is there an escape or break sequence so I don't have to sift through all that?

Ctrl+Break didn't do it...

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tech-airman

Daniel333 wrote:

Alright, so I was playing with a 2900 series switch for the first time today. (I'd previously only had a 1900) So I ran a "show int" and it ran all 16 fast ethernet ports page by page. So I found myself hitting the space bar over and over and took like 45 seconds to get back to the command prompt. I was only interested int he first 3 ports. Is there an escape or break sequence so I don't have to sift through all that?

Ctrl+Break didn't do it...

Daniel333,

Pushing the "Esc" key at the " --More-- " prompt works for me.

seraphus

tech-airman wrote:

Daniel333 wrote:

Alright, so I was playing with a 2900 series switch for the first time today. (I'd previously only had a 1900) So I ran a "show int" and it ran all 16 fast ethernet ports page by page. So I found myself hitting the space bar over and over and took like 45 seconds to get back to the command prompt. I was only interested int he first 3 ports. Is there an escape or break sequence so I don't have to sift through all that?

Ctrl+Break didn't do it...

Daniel333,

Pushing the "Esc" key at the " --More-- " prompt works for me.

Pushing the "q" key also works for me.

Rearden

Yea, I always use 'q', just like the more utility on *nix systems.

Daniel333

Yeah, Escape worked. Man, feeling dumb.

thanks,

Paul Boz

just using a backspace should work also.

mwgood

Try the following for fun...

sh runn | include string

sh runn | begin string

These commands can be used to narrow down virtually anything you are searching for in the output of any of your show commands.

Finally, here's one of my favorites - say you are looking for more than 1 item, for example, you want to view the status of two of your interfaces only. You can type something like...

sh ip int bri | in 0.16|0.18

This will show you only the show ip interface brief output for the matched subinterfaces. Of course, you're output depends on how you craft your search strings.

Anyway, play with these if you haven't seen them - they are very useful.

theseman

I could be wrong.....

But I think pressing most keys other then space and enter works... I think I usually press "c". I can't check right now but if anyone is curious enough to try please let us know!!

Darthn3ss

control+C works as well. thats what i use.

mwgood

theseman wrote:

... I think pressing most keys other then space and enter works...

Correct.

jvax

I know every key except space and enter does it.

I use "q". I think I am used to it from more and man utils in *nix.